Seedtime: Notebooks, 1954-79

The first volume of notes and reflections from one of Switzerland’s most prominent and prolific men of letters.Seedtime—Jaccottet’s notebooks—is an especially good introduction to this leading francophone Swiss author, containing the poet’s observations of the natural world and his reflections on literature, art, music, and the human condition. In these explorations, he returns again and again to the fundamental, focusing his prodigious talents on describing the exact shade of light on a me...