In Winter Light by Philippe Jaccottet, trans. Jim Dooley Michele Hutchison madness and lost history

madness and lost history

I don't fear change coming

learn and feel with

They draw our elemental selves out onto burning fields

Neruda's acclaimed biographer and translator

In Winter Light by Philippe Jaccottet, trans. Jim Dooley Michele Hutchison madness and lost historyThe first translation into English of la lumire dhiver in its entirety In this fine translation of Phillipe Jaccottets elegiac three part collection Tim Dooley wonderfully combines the grace of his own attentive poetics with a clear intimacy of understanding. In his hands, In Winter Light relays Jaccottets lucidly charged journey through loss and mourning in language thats as close to the ear as it is to the imagination and the heart Jane Draycott