Anne-Marie Albiach

Poetry. Translated from the French by Keith Waldrop. FIGURED IMAGE is a striking new collection of poetry by Anne-Marie Albiach. Since the publication of Etat by Mercure de France in 1971, Albiach has remained a signal presence in French poetry and beyond, impacting American poets and artists such as Barbara Guest and Richard Tuttle. Bound by a geometry where language and body converge, FIGURED IMAGE offers a lyricism that "breathes differently," luring the reader down darkening roads of memory, desire, and chance. "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.

Figured Image

George Oppen

Giuseppe Ungaretti

J. H. Prynne

Andrea Zanzotto

Ósip Mandelstam

Raul Zurita

William Fuller

Kumiko Kiuchi

Lit Rev 2

Snow

Poetry. Translated from the French by Josef Simas, with Lydia Davis, Anthony Barnett and Douglas Oliver. "There is no other poetry like this in the world. Even at its most difficult, its passions are mesmerizing. It is a great triumph to have carried these extraordinary pages into the English language."--Paul Auster "Here is the poet for whom the voice itself rings in its silent echo, reaching ever farther into the constancy of reflection, ever further into something unknown, unknowable, frightening...."--Gale Nelson "It is a book of fourteen poems...which seem to be a meditation on an already-distanced interior drama, a kind of passion both in the sensual and in the suffering senses."--Rachel Blau DuPlessis

Mezza Voce

État

Anne-Marie Albiach

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