Poetry. Translated from the French by Keith Waldrop. "A descriptive method from which all the conventional indicators have been withheld? Like a theory of colors in which no colors are shown? Yes—but then. But then, 'from the scriptive' arises a tale, a constellation of voices and silences as singular and engaging as any other in contemporary poetry. To read Claude Royet-Journoud is to experience the elements of the telling itself. Less, for once, is truly more."—Michael Palmer

A Descriptive Method

Literature & Fiction

Royet-Journoud, Claude

Poetry

The Post-Apollo Press

This book, precise and distilled, pushes at the limits of language and finds there a wonder with humanity at its center.

Theory of Prepositions

LA PRESSE

Charting the Here of There contains a world of French-American exchange--a world governed by back-and-forth, double conciousness and the magic inherent in translation and mistranslation, as well as the fantastic, poetic mystery and possibility that comes out of this articulation “across the pond.” Writers Guy Bennett and Beatrice Mousli document the high points of this ongoing exchange as it has written itself on the pages of French and American literary magazines from 1850 letterpresses through present-day web-based publishing. The result is an impeccable overview of a production that testifies to the undeniable, often indefinable bond that joins French and American poetry. The authors survey the past 150 years of transatlantic contact, making the case that literary magazines have served as the telegraph/telephone/e-mail connection for a variety of literary dialogues, permitting, with relative speed and facility, the transmission of poetry and the poetic impulse. Charting the Here of There examines the ephemeral, periodic quality of the “little review” and how it has provided a unique forum for the sustained exchange of ideas that continue to inform the writing of French and American poets. This volume is a companion to the New York Public Library exhibition Reviews of Two Worlds: French-American Literary Periodicals, 1945-2000.

Charting The Here Of There: French & American Poetry in Translation in Literary Magazines, 1850-2002

Cole, Norma

FAUCHEREAU, Serge

Roubaud, Jacques

MATHEWS, Harry

Doris, Stacy

Joris, Pierre

Bennett, Guy

Zavatsky, Bill

Ashbery, John.

DARRAS, Jacques

Bulteau, Michel

Mousli, Béatrice

di Manno, Yves

Guglielmi, Joseph

Swenson, Cole

Valéry, Juliette

History & Criticism

Granary Books/The New York Public Library

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