Daybreak : new and selected poems / Claire Malroux ; translated from the French and with an introduction by Marilyn Hacker.

Daybreak : new and selected poems / Claire Malroux ; translated from the French and with an introduction by Marilyn Hacker.

Poems. Selections. English

9781681375021
1681375028
9781681375038

New York, NY : New York Review of Books, [2020]

©2020

Facing page translations with French on the verso and English on the rectos.
Text in English and French. Translated from the French.

English
French

xvi, 208 pages ; 18 cm.

2020-2021 Poets House Showcase.

"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 Mallarmâe, 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"-- Provided by publisher.

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