Emmanuel Hocquard (11 April 1940 – 27 January 2019) was a French

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Life

He grew up in

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. He served as the editor of the small press ''Orange Export Ltd.'' and, with

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, edited two anthologies of new

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poets, ''21+1: Poètes américains ď aujourďhui'' (with a corresponding English volume, ''21+1 American Poets Today'') and ''49+1''. In 1989, Hocquard founded and directed "Un bureau sur l'Atlantique", an association fostering relations between French and American poets. Besides poetry, he has written essays, a novel, and translated American and

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poets including

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, Michael Palmer,

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, Benjamin Hollander,

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, and

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. With the artist Alexandre Delay, he made a video film, ''Le Voyage à Reykjavik''.

Awards and honors

*2013

Best Translated Book Award The Best Translated Book Award is an American literary award that recognizes the previous year's best original translation into English, one book of poetry and one of fiction. It was inaugurated in 2008 and is conferred by Three Percent, the onlin ...

, shortlist, ''The Invention of Glass''

Books in English translation

*''A Day in the Strait'', translated by Maryann De Julio & Jane Staw, (Red Dust, New York, 1985); "narration" *''Late Additions'', translated by

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and Connell McGrath, "Serie d'Ecriture Nº 2", (Spectacular Diseases, Peterborough, UK, 1988); poems *''Elegies & Other Poems'', translated by John A. Scott, (Shearsman Books, Plymouth, UK, 1989) ; poetry *''Aerea in the Forests of Manhattan'', translated by

Lydia Davis Lydia Davis (born July 15, 1947) is an American short story writer, novelist, essayist, and translator from French and other languages, who often writes short (one or two pages long) short stories. Davis has produced several new translations of ...

, (The Marlboro Press, Marlboro, Vermont, 1992) ; novel *''Of Mists and Clouds'', translated by Mark Hutchinson, (The Noble Rider, Paris). *''Elegy 7'', translated by Pam Rehm &

Keith Waldrop Keith Waldrop (born December 11, 1932, in Emporia, Kansas) is an American poet, translator, and academic. He has authored numerous books of poetry and prose and translated the work of Claude Royet-Journoud, Anne-Marie Albiach, and Edmond Jabès ...

, "Serie d'Ecriture Nº 7", ( Burning Deck, Providence (RI), 1993); poetry *''Theory of Tables'', translated by Michael Palmer, Afterword translation by

Norma Cole Norma Cole (born May 12, 1945) is a Canadian poet, visual artist, translator, and curator. An Anglophone Canadian by birth, Cole learned French at an early age, and went on to translate the works of French poets Emmanuel Hocquard, Danielle Collo ...

, (Providence, RI: O-blek editions, 1994); poems *''The Garden of Sallust and other writings'', translated by Mark Hutchinson, (The Noble Rider, Paris, 1995). *''The Library at Trieste'', translated by Mark Hutchinson, (The Noble Rider, Paris) ; a talk given in 1987 at the University of California, San Diego *''This Story Is Mine: Little Autobiographical Dictionary of Elegy'' translated by

, (Instress, 1999); poems *''Codicil & Plan for Pond 4'', translated by

Ray DiPalma Ray DiPalma (1943-2016) (born in New Kensington, PA in 1943) was an American poet and visual artist who published more than 40 collections of poetry, graphic work, and translations with various presses in the US and Europe. He was educated at Duq ...

& Juliette Valéry, (The Post Apollo Press, 1999) ; poems *''A Test of Solitude: Sonnets'', translated by Rosmarie Waldrop, ( Burning Deck, Providence (RI), 2000) ; poems *''Conditions of Light'', translated by Jean-Jacques Poucel, (Fence Books/La Presse, 2010) ; poems *''The Invention of Glass'', translated by

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and Rod Smith, (Canarium Books, 2012) ; poems

References

External links

"Un bureau sur l'Atlantique" site at EPC
includes detailed description of this organization

includes a transcribed conversation with Royet-Journoud & poems

from ''

Jacket Magazine ''Jacket'' (now published as ''Jacket2'') is an online literary periodical, which was founded by the Australian poet John Tranter. The first issue was in October 1997. Until 2010, each new number of the magazine was posted at the Web site pi ...

'' *, a site providing an interactive reading of this Hocquard book
Audio-files @ PENNsound
listen to Hocquard read from his work

In French. Describes Hocquard in terms of "la modernité négative".
Emmanuel Hocquard and The Poetry of Negative Modernity
a synopsis of a book project by Glenn W. Fetzer, for which he was awarded a Camargo Foundation Fellowship: 2003 (Winter-Spring)

by

Jean-Michel Maulpoix Jean-Michel Maulpoix was born on November 11, 1952 in Montbéliard, Doubs. The author of more than twenty volumes of French poetry (in blank verse fragments and in prose) and of several volumes of essays and criticism, he teaches modern French l ...

* essay by Glenn Fetzer, published by ''Symposium'': 22 June 2002, and available at accessmylibrary.com
A Formal Type of Work: Rereading Emmanuel Hocquard
by

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