Aufgabe #10

Featuring French poetry & poetics in translation
guest edited by Cole Swensen

2011 • 296 pp. • 6" x 9" • $15.00
ISBN: 978-1-933959-21-4 • ISSN: 1532-5539

Original art by Lee Etheredge IV

• Review by Poetry Foundation's Harryette blog. August 2, 2011.
• Review by Rob McLennan. August 1, 2011.

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Feature | French poetry & poetics guest edited by Cole Swensen

Translations from the French by Barbara Beck, Norma Cole, Jennifer K. Dick, Stacy Doris, Sylvain Gallais, Cynthia Hogue, Kevin Holden, Ellen Leblond-Schrader, Louise Loftus, Michelle Noteboom, Jean-Jacques Poucel, Eléna Rivera, Sarah Riggs, Lisa Robertson, Eleni Sikelianos, Cole Swensen, Keith Waldrop, Rosmarie Waldrop, Chet Wiener, and Andrew Zawacki

Cole Swensen, Dossier: Contemporary Poetry in France
Oscarine Bosquet, from Present Participle
Stéphane Bouquet, from A People
Marie-Louise Chapelle, from mettre.
Suzanne Doppelt, from Lazy Suzie
Caroline Dubois, from How’s that I say not sleep
Frédéric Forte, String Quartet Number 4
Isabelle Garron, from The Contemporary Step
Éric Houser, from Perpetual Motion
Virginie Lalucq & Jean-Luc Nancy, from Fortino Sámano (The Overflowing of the Poem)
David Lespiau, from Four Cut-Ups or The Case of the Restored Volume
Sabine Macher, from Notebook a
Vannina Maestri, from stop getting all excited
Jérôme Mauche, from Discount Electuary
Anne Parian, from Monospace
Véronique Pittolo, from Infidelity is a Great Big Doll
Virginie Poitrasson, from Always Keep a Magic Formula in Mind
Pascal Poyet, Our Dispositions Take Themselves for Things
Nathalie Quintane, from Grand Ensemble
Sébastien Smirou, from See About
Gwenaëlle Stubbe, from Salut, salut Marxus
Éric Suchère, from Set, Winterwreck
Bénédicte Vilgrain, from The Tibetan Grammar: Khà, Chapter three

Poetry

edited by E. Tracy Grinnell, Paul Foster Johnson & Julian T. Brolaski
with contributing editors Jen Hofer & Nathanaël

Etel Adnan, from FOG
Susan Maxwell, Four Poems
Paul Killebrew, Four Poems
Lawrence Giffin, Three Poems
Rocío Cerón, from America
............ (Jen Hofer, trans.)
Christopher Stackhouse, In Parts (a) to (g)
David Wolach, from Hospitalogy
Román Luján, Clusters
............ (Brian Whitener, trans.)
Alli Warren, Four Poems
Catherine Meng, Three Poems
Lauren Levin, Five Poems
Paul Braffort, Two Poems
............ (translations & transversions by Gabriela Jauregui & Amaranth Borsuk)
René Lapierre, Treatise on Physics
............ (Nathanaël, trans.)
G.C. Waldrep, Two Poems
Jill Magi, from Furlough
Prageeta Sharma, Two Poems
Jane Joritz-Nakagawa, Three Poems
Robert Glück, from I, Boombox
Lauren Shufran, The Birds
Mathew Timmons, from Sound Noise
Reynaldo Jiménez, from 600 Doors
............ (Carlos Lara, trans.)
Stephanie Gray, Four Poems
Harold Abramowitz, Salf
Brian Laidlaw, Two Poems
Joan Retallack, from The Bosch Bookshelf
Rachel Blau DuPlessis, Draft 107: Meant to Say

Essays, notes, reviews

Edited by Julian T. Brolaski & Paul Foster Johnson

Erin Morrill, Protophelia; Codaphelia
Johanna Drucker, Notes on Notes on Conceptualisms
Amaranth Borsuk & Gabriela Jauregui, Transverting the Bestiary
Pierre Joris, from Meditations on the Stations of Mansur Al-Hallaj
Paul Killebrew, Lewis Freedman’s Catfish Po’ Boys
Jill Magi, Make Home Rule: A Response to Carole Maso's “Break Every Rule”
Robert Glück, CUNY Talk: Uncertain Reading

Contributors’ Notes

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