Earth and Mind: Dreaming, Writing, Being : Nine Contemporary French Poets - Yves Bonnefoy, Jacqueline Risset, Salah Stétié, Vénus Khoury-Ghata, Tahar Ben Jelloun, André Velter, Marie-Claire Bancquart, Jean-Claude Pinson, Jacques D

In Earth and Mind : Dreaming, Writing, Being Michael Bishop examines very recent work by nine major French and Francophone writers : Bonnefoy, Risset, Stétié, Khoury-Ghata, Ben Jelloun, Velter, Bancquart, Pinson and Dupin, dealing with the mind's complex modes of relating to its experience of presence to the world.