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POETRY Magazine cover of October-November 2000 issue

October 2000

Valérie Catherine Richez, Untitled, 2000.

Julien Gracq
Michel De Smet
Louis-René Des Forét
Pierre Martory
Yves Bonnefoy

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Poem

from Prose de l'étrangère

Poem

Le Point du jour

Translated By Geoffrey Brock

Poem

Ostinato

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Table of Contents

Poetry

Julien Gracq
- from Prose de l'étrangère
- from Prose for the Foreign One (tr. by Alan Jenkins)
Michel De Smet
- Le Point du jour
- Break of Day (tr. by Geoffrey Brock)
Louis-René Des Forét
- Ostinato
- from Ostinato (tr. by Ela Kotkowska-Atkinson)
Pierre Martory
- Mairie du Quinzième
- Town Hall, Fifteenth Arrondissement (tr. by John Ashbery)
- Bastille
- Fragment (tr. by Alex Phillips and Paul Fattaruso)
Yves Bonnefoy
- from La Pluie d'été
- from Summer Rain (tr. by Hoyt Rogers)
Andrée Chedid
- Remous
- Eddies (tr. by Annie Finch)
- In This Street (tr. by Annie Finch)
- Face to Face (tr. by Annie Finch)
André Du Bouchet
- Lettre
- Letter (tr. by Hoyt Rogers)
- Stone or Water (tr. by Hoyt Rogers)
- Swiftness (tr. by Hoyt Rogers)
Heather Dohollau
- 3 Poèmes du Purgatoire
- 3 Poems of Purgatory (tr. by Hoyt Rogers)
- [Matter of Light] (tr. by Hoyt Rogers)
Lorand Gaspar
- La Maison prés de la mer (2)
- House by the Sea (2) (tr. by Peter Riley)
Phillippe Jaccottet
- from Leçons
- from Learning... (tr. by Marc Treharne)
Robert Marteau
- [Je consens que tout s'efface]
- [I consent that everything vanishes] (tr. by John Montague)
- [Qui froisse à Delphes le laurier]
- [Who crumples the laurel at Delphi] (tr. by John Montague)
- [Les plantes et les planètes]
- [Plants and planets] (tr. by John Montague)
Geneviève Pastre
- [[Je suis le navigateur maladroit]
- [Yesterday morning I woke up]
- [I PLUNGED]
Edouard Glissant
- Pour Mycéa / For Mycea
Jacques Réda
- [Un Citadin / A City Dweller]
- A Drama in Luxembourg Gardens
- THE ERRAND
Jude Stéfan
- OMNES SCRIBEBANT
Michel Deguy
- [Tout Polyphonix échoua down town] / [All Polyphonix washed up downtown]
Marie-Claire Bancquart
- [Le vent secoue le souvenir par les fenêtres] / [Wind shakes memory by the windows]
- [IT'S BEEN TWO THOUSAND YEARS NOW]
- [EVERY MORNING WE SET OUT AGAIN]
- [AS FOR ME, I LOVE AN OLDER MAN]
Jacques Roubaud
- Parmi beaucoup de poèmes / Among Many Poems
- AMSTERDAM STREET
- Dream of February 11, 19...
- Dream of August 17, 19...
Supervielle Silvia Baron
- [[Il se tient encore debout] / [He still remains standing]]
- [Plus j'egare la mémoire]] / [The more I lose memory]
Charles Juliet
- [Quand tu ne savais rien] / [When you knew nothing]
- [THE ONE WHO HAS NOT GONE]
- [WHEN THE EYE HAS FINALLY MADE ITSELF CLEAR]
- [OFTEN WHEN HE WAS ADVANCING]
Claude Esteban
- From Sur la dernière lande / From On the Last Heath
Claire Malroux
- Aubade / Alba
- PEDESTRIAN
- PREHISTORIC
Vénus Khoury-Ghata
- [[Inutile de ressemeler nos livres] / [No use re-soling our books]]
- [SHE USED TO THROW HER OLD CROCKERY AT THE MOON]
- [WE MADE FIRES WHICH LICKED THE CLOUDS' CHASUBLES]
Paul De Roux
- [La rue profonde / The Deep Street]
- THE RAIN
- The Day's Labour
- WINTER SKY
- THE COLD AGAIN
- THE INVISIBLE LAYER
Gil Jouanard
- [Coda de l'itinérant figé / Coda of the Fixed Itinerant]
Dominique Fourcade
- [Braille manque de mains / Braille Misses Hands]
Gabrielle Althen
- [Confiteor / Confiteor]
- THE WEIGHT OF THE SKY
- WITHOUT SLAVERY
- THE SUSPENDED HOUSE
William Cliff
- [From Autobiographie / From Autobiography]
James Sacré
- [Le Renard est un mot qui ruse / The Fox is a Cunning Word]
Christian Hubin
- [Couloir dans le crépuscule] / [Corridor in the dusk]
- [NETWORKS UNDER THE FORESTS]
- [Corroded substances, leaves]
Tahar Ben
- [[L'eau n'aime ce pays que de temps en temps] / [Water only loves this land once in a while]]
- [THE MAN WHO KNOWS THE SECRET OF THE DESERT]
- [SOUNDS FROM THE DISTANT WORLD]
André Velter
- SAND AND ASHES
Hédi Kaddour
- [Verlaine / Verlaine]
- THE NIGHTMARE
- SIX-THIRTY
Guy Goffette
- [Les Corbeaux / CROWS]
François De Cornière
- À quoi tu penses? / What Are You Thinking About?
- DID YOU SEE THE STARLINGS?
Philippe Delaveau
- [Matin d'hiver / Winter Morning]
- NIGHT BLESSINGS
- SUMMERTIME
- THE VOICE OF SUMMER
Geneviève Huttin
- From Paris: Litanie des Cafés / From Paris: Litany of the Cafés
Jean-Michel Maulpoix
- from [From Une histoire de bleu / From A Story of Blue]
Pascale Monnier
- L'été / Summer

Comment

John Taylor
- From Intimism to the Poetics of "Presence": Reading Contemporary French Poetry

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