Edge offers a selection of poems from Claire Malroux’s previous volumes, published under her nom de plume Claire Sara Roux, with new poems all translated by Marilyn Hacker. From the Translator’s Preface”: Claire Malroux’s poems have no political agenda. But, often enough, they subvert expectations by simply using undramatic womanly quotidian gestures to signify the human universal. A woman’s specifically female odors and textures are transmuted into the earth’s seasonal modulations: the lipstick poised in the air’ in front of the bathroom mirror leads to a meditation on fixity, stagnation, and change; the silenced virgins of myth and provincial dining-rooms rise up out of their fathers’ shadows and claim the power of the word.”

Edge (Contemporary French Poetry in Translation)

Literature & Fiction

Malroux, Claire

Poetry

Wake Forest University Press

A bilingual collection of poetry, from elegies to poem memoirs, by a revered French master. For over four decades Claire Malroux has forged a unique path in contemporary French poetry, informed by the French tradition, poets such as Yves Bonnefoy and Mallarme, and more unusually, by the Anglophone tradition, especially Emily Dickinson, Elizabeth Bishop, and Derek Walcott. A preeminent translator of English poetry into French, Malroux claims as a signal event in her literary life her discovery in 1983 of Dickinson's poetry, which she describes as "an encounter with the uncanny" and the awakening of a "personal affinity." Malroux is one of those rare poets whose work is informed by day-to-day intimacy with a second language in its greatest variations and subtleties. Her poems move between an intense but philosophical and abstract interiority and an acute engagement with the material world. In almost every poem there is a characteristic and unsettling amalgam of past and present that collapses distance and incarnates through metaphor. This bilingual selection by the award-winning poet and translator Marilyn Hacker presents Malroux's oeuvre from her early lyric poems, to an excerpt from A Long-Gone Sun--a poem-memoir of life in southern France before and during World War II--to new and uncollected poems from two sequences of elegies written after the death of her life partner, the writer Pierre Sylvain.

Daybreak: New and Selected Poems

History & Criticism

NYRB Poets

Malroux, a French poet, recounts her childhood and her father's death in the Nazi concentration camp, Bergen-Belsen.

A Long-Gone Sun

Biographies & Memoirs

Community & Culture

Sheep Meadow Press

Chambre avec vue sur l'éternité: Emily Dickinson

Literary

Gallimard]

Dits du cerf et de quelques biches

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