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8 unusual facts about Claude Royet-Journoud


Claude Royet-Journoud

The tetralogy mentioned above has been published in English translation by Keith Waldrop as : Reversal (1973); The Notion of Obstacle (1985), and Objects Contain the Infinite (1995).

He was also co-founder & co-editor (with Anne-Marie Albiach and Michel Couturier) of the journal Siècle à mains (1963–1970).

Other publications that have appeared in translation include: The Crowded Circle (tr. Keith Waldrop) (1973); Até (tr. Keith Waldrop, 1981); "The Maternal Drape" or the Resititution (tr. Charles Bernstein), 1985), and Theory of Prepositions (tr. Keith Waldrop, 2006).

A champion of American poetry since the 1960s, when he translated George Oppen and published John Ashbery and Louis Zukofsky, he has edited (with Emmanuel Hocquard) two anthologies of American poetry, 21+1: Poètes améicains d'aujourd'hui (1986) and 49+1: nouveaux poètes américains (1991).

Cole Swensen

She is also the founder and editor of La Presse, a small press dedicated to the translation and publication in English of contemporary French poetry (such as by Claude Royet-Journoud or Marie Borel).

Jennifer K Dick

Her doctoral research and critical writings on contemporary cross-genre poets and prose authors are in the field of Comparative Literature with an accent on Visual studies, Modernism, Postmodernism and the Avant-garde, including work on Susan Howe, Myung Mi Kim, Anne-Marie Albiach, Claude Royet-Journoud, Lisa Jarnot, and Maurice Roche.

Keith Waldrop

Keith Waldrop (born December 11, 1932, in Emporia, Kansas) is the author of numerous books of poetry and prose, and has translated the work of Claude Royet-Journoud, Anne-Marie Albiach, and Edmond Jabès, among others.

Norma Cole

Important French connections have included Claude Royet-Journoud, Emmanuel Hocquard, and Joseph Simas, who published her first book, Mace Hill Remap.


Anne-Marie Albiach

Today, Albiach is associated in France with poets Claude Royet-Journoud and Emmanuel Hocquard, all three being, at various times, translated and published by the American poets Keith Waldrop and Rosmarie Waldrop via Burning Deck, their influential small press.


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