{"product_id":"elegies-paperback-3","title":"Elegies - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eEmmanuel Hocquard\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eCole Swensen\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe central works of one of France's most renowned poets, now translated into English for the first time.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEmmanuel Hocquard's \u003ci\u003eElegies\u003c\/i\u003e, 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 \u003ci\u003eElegies \u003c\/i\u003eare 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHocquard 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.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEmmanuel Hocquard\u003c\/b\u003e (1940-2019) was a French poet, editor, and translator who grew up in Tangiers. He is the author of over twenty books, including \u003ci\u003eThe Invention of Glass\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eTheory of Tables\u003c\/i\u003e, and he has translated into French the work of writers such as Charles Renikoff, Paul Auster, Michael Palmer, and Fernando Pessoa. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eCole Swensen\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of twenty books of poetry; a collection of hybrid poetic essays, \u003ci\u003eArt in Time\u003c\/i\u003e; and a volume of critical essays, \u003ci\u003eNoise That Stays Noise\u003c\/i\u003e. A former Guggenheim Fellow and a recipient of the Iowa Poetry Prize and the San Francisco State Poetry Center Book Award, she also translates poetry and art criticism from the French and has won the PEN USA Award in Translation, the 2024 ALTA National Translation Award, and the 2025 Stephen Mitchell Prize. She divides her time between France and the United States.\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 160\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.5 x 6.9 x 4.7 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 13, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47354276249849,"sku":"9781681379920","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/4X5WcVrwP69781681379920.webp?v=1769833451","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/elegies-paperback-3","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}