Modern French poetry: A bilingual anthology

Reference

Gavronsky, Serge

Terry, Patricia

Encyclopedias & Subject Guides

Columbia University Press

Toward a New Poetics: Contemporary Writing in France

A quiet revolution is taking place in avant-garde French poetry and prose. In this collection of twelve interviews with some of France's most important poets and writers, Serge Gavronsky introduces American readers to these exciting new developments.As Gavronsky explains, a neolyricism is now replacing the formalism of the 1960s, '70s, and '80s. In his substantial introduction, Gavronsky notes how the ideological definition of writing (écriture) has given way to more open forms of writing. Human experiences of the most ordinary kinds are finding a place in the text.These interviews offer a view of the poets' and writers' creative processes and range over such topics as current literary theory, the impact of American poetry in France, and the place of feminism in contemporary French writing. Each interview is accompanied by samples of the writer's work in French and in Gavronsky's English translations.Toward a New Poetics provides a highly informative cultural and critical perspective on contemporary writing in France, introducing us to works which are now transforming the idea of literature itself.

Literature & Fiction

History & Criticism

University of California Press

A quiet revolution is taking place in avant-garde French poetry and prose. In this collection of twelve interviews with some of France's most important poets and writers, Serge Gavronsky introduces American readers to these exciting new developments. As Gavronsky explains, a neolyricism is now replacing the formalism of the 1960s, '70s, and '80s. In his substantial introduction, Gavronsky notes how the ideological definition of writing (écriture) has given way to more open forms of writing. Human experiences of the most ordinary kinds are finding a place in the text. These interviews offer a view of the poets' and writers' creative processes and range over such topics as current literary theory, the impact of American poetry in France, and the place of feminism in contemporary French writing. Each interview is accompanied by samples of the writer's work in French and in Gavronsky's English translations. Toward a New Poetics provides a highly informative cultural and critical perspective on contemporary writing in France, introducing us to works which are now transforming the idea of literature itself.

The implicit heart of Gavronsky’s imaginary meditation lies in the daunting similarity of the dialogues on the two fronts of the war between terror and authority. Harold Bloom, from the preface “On Gavronsky” 
 A Rip-roaring read. Somewhere between Apollinaire, The Cantos, and Reznikoff. Fresh. Fast. Full of pep and Wit. The language is young even though the memories be old. Richard Sieburth 
 Carefully incised to appear cut up and even occasionaily chaotic, Serge Gavronsky’s Silence of Memory reassembles the disastrous treatment history delivers to memory. “Let me tell you a story if I can remember it correctly.” Gavronsky’s honest, concentric reminiscences, however, don’t provide the usual reassurance that our world is ultimately supportive. Rather, the reality principle that he invokes from many perspectives invites the reader, during the reading and as long as she remembers correctly, to stay on her toes or else. On the other hand, Gavronsky’s wonderful vocabulary and syntactic acrobatics provide more than a little comfort about human potential. His ability to treat displacement not as human frailty but as a coping mechanism show how inside and outside, near and far, link indissolubly toward helping to understand his dour vision. James Sherry

Silence of Memory

Literary

Spuyten Duyvil Publishing

Torn Apart (Dechirures)

Mansour, Joyce

Bitter Oleander Press

Poetry. On Serge Gavronsky's collection of poetry called ANDORTHE: "Serge Gavronsky sets out to test Zukofsky's dictum that 'a case can be made for the poet giving some of his life to the use of the words the and a; both of which are weighted with as much epos and historical destiny as a man can perhaps resolve' - although in this case Gavronsky torques his dense, intense post-Objectivist braid around two conjunctions and the definite article. ANDORTHE writes poems within a poem and against and through "A" and the Cantos, the Holocaust and the Upper West Side, academese and Brooklyn schtick, post-structuralism and rides on the 1/9. Epos and historical destiny - und so weiter - indeed!" -Michael Golston.

ANDORTHE

Poetry

Talisman House, Publishers

The eminent poet and critic, Michael Heller writes, "Gavronsky is a poet of receptivity, of impingements and of on-the-spot awareness. Our engarbled languages seem to fall into his pages like sub-atomic particles arriving from the cosmos of daily speech, from our data-driven and pre-encoded worlds. Linked or unlinked--and often one can't tell-- the lines lead away from the romancings and pleasing pastorals that make up our typical poetic fictions. His language is often gnomic, '. . . with the self bombarded by all sorts of incommensurables and contradictions that Gavronsky yokes together into a strange coherence aided and abetted by the human desire to make wholes out of fragments.'"

A Season for Myself

Dos Madres Press

Product Description Serge Garvonsky delivers up a kaleidoscopic camera obscura objectivist inwreathing ply-over-ply minor epic here, effortlessly braiding together 1) a recurring hospital scene involving 2) an erotic nurse brandishing 3) an ominously erect syringe in Room 13 w/ motorcycle accident Bed 26 near 4) the 11th floor elevator along with 5) Shakespeare, Catullus, Moliere, Foucault, de Sade, James (Henry), Spinoza, McClure (Michael), Lucretius, Stein (Gertrude), Picasso, Lenin (Vladimir), the Bible, and the Upanishads, accompanied by 6) sundry meditations on love, lust, life, sex, dreams, writing, translation, graduate school, and the price of Corn Flakes now, all wound into 7) a tightly twisted infernal Dantescan search for the Muse, who, it turns out, is 8) the nurse with the syringe, as pitched through 9) the Beautiful Thing of Book III, Part 1 of William Carlos Williams’s Paterson! A mad, clanking, elegant, touching romp through a lifetime of associations, reflections, deliberations, and excavations. Read it. Twice! Michael Golston Review Serge Gavronsky delivers up a kaleidoscopic camera obscura objectivist inwreathing ply-over-ply minor epic here, effortlessly braiding together 1) a recurring hospital scene involving 2) an erotic nurse brandishing 3) an ominously erect syringe in Room 13 w/ motorcycle accident Bed 26 near 4) the 11th floor elevator along with 5) Shakespeare, Catullus, Moliere, Foucault, de Sade, James (Henry), Spinoza, McClure (Michael), Lucretius, Stein (Gertrude), Picasso, Lenin (Vladimir), the Bible, and the Upanishads, accompanied by 6) sundry meditations on love, lust, life, sex, dreams, writing, translation, graduate school, and the price of Corn Flakes now, all wound into 7) a tightly twisted infernal Dantescan search for the Muse, who, it turns out, is 8) the nurse with the syringe, as pitched through 9) the Beautiful Thing of Book III, Part 1 of William Carlos Williams's Paterson! A mad, clanking, elegant, touching romp through a lifetime of associations, reflections, deliberations, and excavations. Read it. Twice! Michael Golston About the Author Serge Gavronsky, born in Paris, now lives in New York. He was educated at Columbia University, from where he received his Phd in European History. He subsequently held the position of Professor of French Literature and Poetics, at Barnard College, Columbia University. He has published eleven books of poetry in French and in English, in addition to over twenty artist's books in France. In English, he published poetry, fiction and literary criticism, as well as five books of translation of contemporary French poets: Poems And Texts, The Power Of Language, Toward A New Poetics, Six Contemporary French Women Poets, The Writing Of Appollinaire. His main focus was the poetry/poetics of Francis Ponge. His more recent publications include: Silence Of Memory, Truth Truth Truth, Murderous Fantasies, and What's The Title? Title. Louis Zukofsky's A, co-translated with Francois Dominique, was published in 2020. He is presently writing a new work of poetic fiction.

Words in Memory

United States

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