Claude Royet-Journoud (born 8 September 1941 in
Lyon, France) is a contemporary
French poet
List of poets who have written in the French language:
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* Louise-Victorine Ackermann (1813–1890)
* Adam de la Halle (v.1250 – v.1285)
* Pierre Albert-Birot (1876–1967)
* Anne-Marie Albiach (1937–2012)
* Pierre Alféri (1963)
* Marc ...
and
artist living in
Paris
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.
Overview
Royet-Journoud's publications in French include his
tetralogy
A tetralogy (from Greek τετρα- '' tetra-'', "four" and -λογία ''-logia'', "discourse") is a compound work that is made up of four distinct works. The name comes from the Attic theater, in which a tetralogy was a group of three tragedie ...
, published between 1972 and 1997: ''Le Renversement'', ''La Notion d'Obstacle'', ''Les Objets contiennent l'infini'', and ''Les Natures indivisibles'' (1972, 1978, 1983, 1997). He was also co-founder & co-editor (with
Anne-Marie Albiach
Anne-Marie Albiach (9 August 1937 – 4 November 2012) was a contemporary French poet and translator.
Overview
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and Michel Couturier) of the journal ''Siècle à mains'' (1963–1970). A champion of
American poetry
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since the 1960s, when he translated
George Oppen and published
John Ashbery and
Louis Zukofsky
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, he has edited (with
Emmanuel Hocquard
Emmanuel Hocquard (11 April 1940 – 27 January 2019) was a French poet.
Life
He grew up in Tangier, Morocco. He served as the editor of the small press ''Orange Export Ltd.'' and, with Claude Royet-Journoud, edited two anthologies of new Amer ...
) two anthologies of American poetry, ''21+1: Poètes américains d'aujourd'hui'' (1986) and ''49+1: nouveaux poètes américains'' (1991). He also edited the small journal, "Zuk", in which appeared French translations of works by American poets.
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.
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* Charles Bernstein (poet)
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), 1985), and ''Theory of Prepositions'' (tr. Keith Waldrop, 2006).
Royet-Journoud's work has appeared in journals and magazines such as ''Acts'', ''Conjunctions'', ''Temblor'', ''o-blek'', ''New Directions'', ''Moving Letters'', ''Lingo'', with interviews appearing in ''Lingo # 4'' (1995), ''Toward a New Poetics'' (1994) (ed. Serge Gavronsky), and ''Code of Signals'' (ed.
Michael Palmer). His work has been translated into Greek, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Romanian, Norwegian and Swedish.
Author Page at ''Duration Press
includes the interview on-line which first appeared in ''Code of Signals'' (see above)
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). Selections of ''Les Natures indivisibles'' have appeared, in Keith Waldrop's translation, as: ''A Descriptive Method'' (1995), ''i.e.''(1995), and ''The Right Wall of the Heart Effaced'' (1999).
External links
French Poetry since 1950: Tendencies III
by Jean-Michel Maulpoix
Notes
1941 births
French poets
French translators
Living people
French male poets
French male non-fiction writers
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