John Scotus Eriugena at Laon & Other Poems by Jacques Darras, trans. by Richard Sieburth WW Norton & Co The Poem Is You will

The Poem Is You will appeal to poets

narratives of incarnation and atonement

 A God at the Door illuminates with lines and images that surprise

himself politically conflicted

John Scotus Eriugena at Laon & Other Poems by Jacques Darras, trans. by Richard Sieburth WW Norton & Co The Poem Is You willA long overdue volume of Jacques Darras, celebrated French poet of place and nature, and prolific translator and scholar of American and British poetry. "John Scotus Eriugena at Laon," the title poem of this volume, recounts the journey of a ninth century Irish monk to the cathedral city of Laon in the heart of Picardy to translate a recently discovered Byzantine manuscript into Latinthe first such transmission of ancient Greek thought northward into