Anne-Marie Albiach

Anne-Marie Albiach
Born	9 August 1937
Died	4 November 2012 (aged 75)
Language	French
Citizenship	French
Genres	poetry; translation
Literary movement	Claude Royet-Journoud, Emmanuel Hocquard

Anne-Marie Albiach (9 August 1937 – 4 November 2012)^[1] was a contemporary French poet and translator.

Overview

Anne-Marie Albiach's poetry is characterized by, among other things, an inventive use of spacing on the printed page. 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".

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. ^[2]

Works

• État (1971); in English: tr. Keith Waldrop. (Windsor, VT: Awede Press, 1989) ISBN 0-942433-13-0
• Mezza Voce (1984); in English: tr. Joseph Simas in collaboration with Anthony Barnett, Lydia Davis & Douglas Oliver. (Sausalito, CA: Post-Apollo Press, 1988) ISBN 0-942996-11-9
• Anawratha (1984)
• Figure Vocative (1985); in English: "Vocative Figure", tr. Anthony Barnett & Joseph Simas. (Allardyce Books, 1992) ISBN 0-907954-18-9
• Le chemin de l'hermitage (1986)
• A Geometry, tr. Keith & Rosmarie Waldrop. (Providence, RI: Burning Deck, 1998) ISBN 1-886224-31-5
• A Discursive, Space: Interviews with Jean Daive, tr. Norma Cole. (Duration Press, 1999).
• Two Poems: Flammigère & the Line ... the Loss tr. Peter Riley (Shearsman Books, 2004)
• Figured Image (tr. Keith Waldrop of Figurations de l'image ). (Post-Apollo Press, 2006) ISBN 978-0-942996-59-3

Critical works on Albiach's writing and interviews

• Collected Interviews with Jean Daive, in French, under the title: Anne-Marie Albiach L’Exact Réel. (Marseille, Eric Pesty Editeur, 2006) ISBN 2-9524961-2-9
• Special issue of the CCP/ Cahier Critique de Poésie : Dossier Anne-Marie Albiach. Centre International de Poésie, Marseille : éditions farrago/Léo Scheer, Vol 5, n° 1, 2002/2003.
• Gleize, Jean-Marie. Anne-Marie Albiach. Paris, Seghers, 1992.
  • Le Théâtre du poème : vers Anne-Marie Albiach. Paris, éd. Belin, 1995. (Coll. l’extrême contemporaine.)
  • « Poésie flammigère » A noir. Paris, Seuil, 1992. pp 209–223. (Coll. fiction & cie.)
• Nelson, Gale. « Works of Anne-Marie Albiach [Etat, Mezza Voce], Susan Howe and Edmond Jabès » in Cathay, USA, 1993.
• Nuridsany, Michel. « Souveraine Anne-Marie Albiach » in Le Figaro newspaper, Paris, Friday 27 April 1984.
• Ramos, Peter. “On Abiach” in Verse Magazine (published by Univ. of Richmond, VA, USA) Special issue on: “French Poetry & Poetics”, v 24, n°s 1-3, 2007. pp 319–321.
• Simas, Joseph. « Entretien avec Joseph Simas » followed by « Notes en marge de l’entretien » by Anne-Marie ALBIACH, Ex n°4, second trimestre 1985. Re-published in the magazine Nioques n°3 under the title « Anne-marie ALBIACH et Joseph SIMAS, Entretien du 13 Juillet 1984 », June 1991.
• Swensen, Cole. « Against the Limits of Language: The Geometries of Anne-Marie Albiach and Susan Howe. » in Moving Borders: Three Decades of Innovative Writing By Women. ed. Mary Margaret SLOAN. Jersey City, New Jersey, Talisman House Publishers, 1998. pp 630–641.

References

1. "Anne-Marie Albiach, figure de la poésie française contemporaine". Lemonde.fr. Retrieved 2012-11-11.
2. "Anne-Marie Albiach (1937-2012)". Jacket2. Retrieved 2012-11-11.

External links

• French Poetry since 1950: Tendencies III by Jean-Michel Maulpoix
• "On ne rachètera pas la vieille Lyre" by C. ANDRIOT-SAILLANT, an article on Albiach's writing. (French)
• "Des poètes français contemporains: Quelques mouvances" et "De la poésie aujourd'hui." adpf. 15 mai 2002. (French)
• "Two Poems: Flammigère & The line . . . the loss" (PDF). (109 KB) in English translation at Shearsman Books