Description
Poetry. Translated from the French by Keith Waldrop. "Anne-Marie Albiach's words are never alone on the page, having each other for company, just as they find here ideal companionship in Keith Waldrop's translation. In Figurations de l'image, Albiach pursues her rigorous investigation into the possibilities of measure, the perceptible, luminescence, vulnerability, memory, contour, ardor, breath, oscillation, remonstration, trajectory, disparity, abstraction, antecedence, disparity, refraction, trace, tapestry, rehearsal, reverberation, and the irreparable. In these poems, the figures refute image as they bank, relapse, surge, palsy, recollect. Albiach scores space to twine time, abjures rhyme to make blank shimmer in the mark."—Charles Bernstein
"In FIGURED IMAGE, Keith Waldrop has created perfectly lucid translations, making available to readers of English the most significant compilation of Anne-Marie Albiach's work since her MEZZA VOCE (The Post-Apollo Press, 1988). Waldrop's limpid immediacy negotiates with deliberate grace the complexities of Albiach's lexicon."—Donald Wellman
Author Bio
Anne-Marie Albiach (1937-2012) was a French poet and translator. With Claude Royet-Journoud and Michel Couturier, she co-edited the magazine Siécle a mains, where she first published her translation of Louis Zukofsky's "A"-9. Her English publications include FIGURED IMAGE (The Post-Apollo Press, 2006), A GEOMETRY (Burning Deck, 1998), VOCATIVE FIGURE (Allardyce, Barnett, Publishers, 1991), and État (Awede Press, 1989). She translated Poème de mémoire by Keith Waldrop in 1982.
Author City: PARIS FRA