Philippe Jaccottet’s « La Clarté Notre-Dame & The Last Book of the Madrigals », translation John Taylor, reviewed by Michael Collins (North of Oxford)

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• Date: 10 décembre 2022
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For North of Oxford, Michael Collins has written the first review of Philippe Jaccottet’s La Clarté Notre-Dame & The Last Book of the Madrigals (Seagull Books), translated by John Taylor.

An excerpt: « The movements between mythic macrocosm and imaginal immanence, in parallel with the reflexivity of speaker and addressee positions, facilitate many framings of this inner dialogue, bringing forth various moods, perspectives, experiential openings, and insights. In doing so the reflections weave together objective knowledge of the human confrontation with death with the mythic experiences of ongoing life in ways that transcend both poet and text, brightening Novembers for those yet to add their own threads to the choir of tapestries. »