Description
Poetry. Translated from the French by Keith Waldrop. A poem by the leading French avant-garde poet whose one-line manifesto: "Shall we escape analogy?" marked the turn away from Surrealism. The poem as detective story that never solves the crime. So that there is only the investigation.
"C.R-J. is one of the most exciting poets of the new generation in France. Combining lyricism and narrative in a highly original way, his work is elegant, controlled and extremely moving.... Superb translations."—Paul Auster
Author Bio
Claude Royet-Journoud was born in 1941, in Lyon. He edited the legendary journal Siècle à mains (with Anne-Marie Albiach and Michel Couturier, 1963-70) and, later, "A," Zuk, and L'In-plano. He has been a champion of American poetry since the sixties, when he translated George Oppen and published John Ashbery and Louis Zukofsky. His central work is the poetry tetralogy FOUR ELEMENTAL BODIES, consisting of Reversal, The Notion of Obstacle, Objects Contain the Infinite, and Natures Indivisible.
Author City: PARIS FRA