« Partout, il y avait trop de bruit, trop de discours. Un jour, j’en ai eu marre de cette frénésie et je suis parti. Certains vont chercher le bonheur en Alaska ou en Sibérie, moi je suis un aventurier de la France cantonale : je lorgne du côté d’Aubusson, du puy Mary et du plateau de Millevaches… » Sans le moindre sou en poche, misant sur la générosité des gens, un jeune aspirant jésuite s’échappe de la ville et de la modernité avec le désir de renouer avec l’élémentaire. Il s’offre une ...

« Un récit jubilatoire à l’écriture tendre. » La Croix« Un texte doux, fantaisiste et revigorant qui ouvre des portes à la fois intimes et universelles. » Page des libraires« Les pères ne sont pas éternels. Un jour, le mien rendrait l’âme. Cette pensée m’inquiétait : qu'allais-je bien pouvoir raconter de cet homme le jour de ses funérailles ? À quarante ans, je ne savais rien ou presque de l'illust...

The complete trilogy following the double life of a young black man in mid-twentieth-century New York: "Reading Wright is a steep, stinging pleasure." —Dwight Garner, The New York TimesIn this incisive, satirical collection of three classic American novels by Charles Wright—hailed by the New York Times as "malevolent, bitter, glittering"—a young black intellectual from the South struggles to make it in New York City. This special compilation includ...

Almost thirty years ago, Charles Wright (who teaches at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville and has won both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award for Poetry) began a poetic project of astonishing scope--a series of three trilogies. The first trilogy was collected in Country Music, the second in The World of the Ten Thousand Things, and the third began with Chickamauga and continued with Black Zodiac. Appalachia is the last bo...

L'aventure a déserté le monde. La seule terre qu'il reste à arpenter, c'est celle de son cœur.Abbé du monastère trappiste du Mont des Cats, puis ermite, André Louf (1929-2010) fut l'un des pionniers de cette aventure intérieure. Cet ouvrage procède d'un long compagnonnage avec cette grande figure spirituelle de l'Occident.Ce n'est pas une biographie « pieuse », mais le récit d'un itinéraire d'homme, avec ses lignes courbes, éperonné par ces interrogations : D...

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle AwardBlack Zodiac offers poems suffused with spiritual longing—lyrical meditations on faith, religion, heritage, and morality. The poems also explore aging and mortality with restless grace. Approaching his vast subjects by way of small moments, Wright magnifies details to reveal truths much larger than the quotidian happenings that engendered them. His is an astonishing, flexible, domestic-yet-universal vers...

A compilation of powerful and moving poems from early in the poet's career.Co-winner of the 1983 National Book Award for Poetry, Country Music is comprised of eighty-eight poems selected from Charles Wright's first four books published between 1970 and 1977. From his first book, The Grave of the Right Hand, to the extraordinary China Trace, this selection of early works represents "Charles Wright's grand passions: his desire to reclaim a...

Negative Blue is the culmination of the cycle that won Wright the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Critics Circle Award.Time will append us like suit coats left out overnightOn a deck chair, loose change dead weight in the right pocket,Silk handkerchief limp with dew,sleeves in a slow dance with the wind.And love will kill us--Love, and the winds from under the earththat grin...

The selected works of one of our finest American poetsThe thread that dangles usbetween a dark and a darker dark,Is luminous, sure, but smooth sided.Don't touch it here, and don't touch it there.Don't touch it, in fact, anywhere—Let it dangle and hold us hard, let it flash and swing.—from "Scar Tissue"Over the course of his work—more than twenty books in total—Char...

Littlefoot, diciottesimo libro di uno dei più celebrati poeti americani, costituisce un’inesausta meditazione sulla mortalità: il poeta-narratore scruta i cieli come una mappa, alla ricerca delle ultime indicazioni sull’“altro lato della sua stessa morte”. Seguendo il corso di un anno, il settantesimo del poeta, assistiamo al mutare delle stagioni sulla sua terra, rendendoci conto che ci siamo riflessi in essa, che la vera affinità è tra scrittore e soggetto, umano e natura, l'uno che dive...

The sun has set behind the Blue Ridge,And evening with its blotting paperlifts off the light.Shadowy yards. Moon through the white pines--"Landscape with Missing Overtones"Never has Charles Wright's vision been more closely aligned with the work of the ancient Chinese painters and writers who inform his poetry than in his newest collection. Wright's short lyrics, in Charles Simic's words, "achieve a level of eloquence w...

Sestets is the nineteenth book from one of the country's most acclaimed poets, a masterpiece of formal rigor and a profound meditation on nature and mortality. It is yet another virtuosic showcase for Charles Wright's acclaimed descriptive powers, and also an inquiry into the nature of description itself, both seductive and dangerous: "a virtual world/ Unfit for the virtuous." Like his previous books, Sestets is seeded with the lyrics of old love songs and spirituals, and...