Ponge, Pastures, Prairies by Philippe Jaccottet translated by John Taylor

[...] a friendship to which many passages of Francis Ponge's letters bear witness without the slightest equivocation and which lasted until the last years of his life-how to express it?-above, or below, that is, more deeply than, our differences, which only exceptionally threatened it. I remain happy, proud, and grateful for the chance that brought us together, and perhaps still more decidedly now that these pages have at last taken on the form of a little book.