Elegies
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Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
1681379929
ISBN-13
9781681379920
Publisher
New York Review Books
Imprint
NYRB Poets
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jan 13th, 2026
Print length
104 Pages
Weight
144 grams
Dimensions
17.70 x 12.10 x 1.20 cms
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Literature: history & criticismLiterature: history and criticism
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The central works of one of France''s most renowned poets, now translated into English for the first time in a bilingual edition.
Emmanuel Hocquard''s Elegies, written over some twenty-five 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 detail—the life of the street and the marketplace, overheard conversations, glimpses of private existence—even as they make room for the ancient world from which the form of the elegy descends.
Hocquard has distinguished between two types of elegiac poet—what 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 ever-expanding present.
Emmanuel Hocquard''s Elegies, written over some twenty-five 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 detail—the life of the street and the marketplace, overheard conversations, glimpses of private existence—even as they make room for the ancient world from which the form of the elegy descends.
Hocquard has distinguished between two types of elegiac poet—what 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 ever-expanding present.
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