Description
Fiction. Poetry. Hybrid Genre. "The title is TITLE. What's the title? TITLE. That means the book is the book, or 'A' book, and implies that the book questions itself along the way, or perhaps just makes a lot of leaps, flops, and fade-away hook shots, though all is not in cinders. But life and words manage to burn, and if you burn too, it might be for thirst of knowledge, and you will at least have a chance to quench such thirst if you read this book, if you attempt to understand the nature of a title. You are Odysseus, and you're trying to get home, or toward another goal, and you need a few challenges along the way; or, you'll get them whether you need them or not."—Charles Alexander
Author Bio
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 has 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 last major publication in French, in 2020, was Louis Zukofsky's "A", co-translated with Francois Dominique. He is presently writing a new work of poetic fiction. His more recent publications include: Silence Of Memory, Truth Truth Truth, Murderous Fantasies, WHAT'S THE TITLE? TITLE, ONCE WRITTEN (Dos Madres Press, 2018), ANDORTHE (Chax Press, 2022), Words In Memory (Spuyten Duyvil).
Author City: NEW YORK, NY USA