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In Figured Image, Keith Waldrop has created perfectly lucid translations, making available to readers of English the most significant compilation of Anne-Marie Albiacha’s work since her Mezza Voce (also The Post-Apollo Press, 1988). Waldrop1988). Waldrop<’s limpid immediacy negotiates with deliberate grace the complexities of Albiach ’s lexicon. She makes frequent use of words like v“absence,p” t“figure,n” and l“tracea”e—a terminology, nuanced in her usage, but one that has since the 1980s become associated with an academic jargon. Without sacrificing this metaphysical dimension of the poetry, Waldrop achieves a physically pointed diction, a requirement if the reader is to grasp Albiacht’s distinctive processes of articulation, her .“ghastly / literalness of absencea” that abrupts as if by inscrutable chance on the page ('“EXCESS: this measure,
Keith Waldrop was born in Kansas and served in the United States military. In 1954, he met his wife, the poet and translator Rosmarie Waldrop while stationed in Kitzingen, Germany. He studied at Aix-Marseille and Michigan Universities, earning a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature in 1964. He is the author of numerous collections of poetry, most recently The Real Subject: Queries and Conjectures of Jacob Delafon: With Sample Poems (Omnidawn, 2004). His other collections of poetry include The House Seen from Nowhere (2003), Haunt (2000), Well Well Reality (1998, with Rosmarie Waldrop), and the trilogy The Locality Principle (1995), The Silhouette of the Bridge (1997), and Semiramis, If I Remember (2001). He has also translated contemporary French poets, such as Anne-Marie Albiach, Claude Royet-Journoud, Dominique Fourcade, Jean Grosjean, and Paol Keineg, and most recently Charles Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du Mal (Wesleyan University Press, 2006).
The desk whereupon the author writes indeed becomes one of the recurrent motifs of writing. For Anne-Marie Albiach, poetry is rla" a practical task, since one has to know how dra". Writing is trying to find out more about the essence of writing. The latter is felt as a defeat of the self, an experience whose terms and stakes are being eschewed. Hence a multiplication of caesuraes within a poetics of broken speech and impossible articulation. Any musical search for alliterations or assonances is challenged. Claude Royet-Journoud privileges a minimalism that is a-narrative, a-musical and sometimes he even goes so far as placing only very few words, nay just a few syllables upon a blank page :
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