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Elegies
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The Central Works Of One Of FranceS Most Renowned Poets, Now Translated Into English For The First Time In A Bilingual Edition.Emmanuel HocquardS Elegies, Written Over Some TwentyFive Years, Lie At The Core Of His Oeuvre, One Of The Most Admired In Contemporary French Poetry. They Sound The Depths Of The Past, Finding It Ever Deeper, And They Pose The Question: To Whom Does The Past Belong? Like Air And Water, Hocquard Suggests, The Past Is A Commons Shared By All. His Elegies Are Full Of Quotidian DetailThe Life Of The Street And The Marketplace, Overheard Conversations, Glimpses Of Private ExistenceEven As They Make Room For The Ancient World From Which The Form Of The Elegy Descends.Hocquard Has Distinguished Between Two Types Of Elegiac PoetWhat He Calls The Classic And The Inverse. The Classic Ruminates On The Past; The Inverse Remakes It. Hocquard Is An Inverse Elegiac Poet: Rich With The Past, His Poems Lead Us Into An EverExpanding Present.
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