Yves Bonnefoy (1923–2016) was a renowned French poet, critic, and professor emeritus of comparative poetics at Collège de France, Paris. He received several major international awards for his work, including the Prix mondial Cino Del Duca and the Franz Kafka Prize. In addition to poetry and literary criticism, he published numerous works on art history and translated into French several of Shakespeare’s plays. Hoyt Rogers is the author of a poetry collection, Witnesses, and a volume of criticism, The Poetics of Inconstancy. He translates French, German, and Spanish.