John Scotus Eriugena at Laon & Other Poems by Jacques Darras, trans. by Richard Sieburth WW Norton & Co In these muscular and ambitious

In these muscular and ambitious poems

Gods don’t hold us

narratives of incarnation and atonement

and 'the voids of soul'

John Scotus Eriugena at Laon & Other Poems by Jacques Darras, trans. by Richard Sieburth WW Norton & Co In these muscular and ambitiousA 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