Publication date: December 2007. Published in association with Bamboo Books, Culver City, California.

This collection was originally published as 'Début et Fin de la Neige' (Mercure de France, 1991). Yves Bonnefoy was born in Tours in 1923. His works have been of great importance in post-war French literature, at the same time poetic and theoretical, examining the meaning of the spoken and written word.