Song for an Equinox

"NRF" Collection.

As a collection, Chant pour un équinoxe brings together Saint-John Perse's last four poems, written from 1968 to 1974. Two of them, "Chanté par celle qui fut là" (1968) and "Chant pour un équinoxe" (1971) were published in the Œuvres complètes, edited in 1972. The last two poems, "Nocturne" (1972) and "Sécheresse" (1974), were only included posthumously in the re-edition of La Pléiade in 1982. These brief texts date from the poet's last years, entirely absorbed by the elaboration of his Œuvres complètes, a true literary and poetic testament. They constitute the only fragments of a larger body of work that the poet did not have time to complete.

FIRST EDITION on publisher's paper.