Claude Royet-Journoud
Encyclopedia
Claude Royet-Journoud is a contemporary French poet and artist
living in Paris
.
, 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
and Michel Couturier) of the journal Siècle à mains (1963–1970). A champion of American poetry since the 1960s, when he translated George Oppen
and published John Ashbery
and Louis Zukofsky
, he has edited (with Emmanuel Hocquard
) two anthologies of American poetry, 21+1: Poètes améicains 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. Charles Bernstein
), 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.
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).
Artist
An artist is a person engaged in one or more of any of a broad spectrum of activities related to creating art, practicing the arts and/or demonstrating an art. The common usage in both everyday speech and academic discourse is a practitioner in the visual arts only...
living in Paris
Paris
Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...
.
Overview
Royet-Journoud's publications in French include his tetralogyTetralogy
A tetralogy is a compound work that is made up of four distinct works, just as a trilogy is made up of three works....
, 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
Anne-Marie Albiach is a contemporary French poet and translator.-Overview:Anne-Marie Albiach's poetry is characterized by, among other things, an inventive use of spacing on the printed page...
and Michel Couturier) of the journal Siècle à mains (1963–1970). A champion of American poetry since the 1960s, when he translated George Oppen
George Oppen
George Oppen was an American poet, best known as one of the members of the Objectivist group of poets. He abandoned poetry in the 1930s for political activism, and later moved to Mexico to avoid the attentions of the House Un-American Activities Committee...
and published John Ashbery
John Ashbery
John Lawrence Ashbery is an American poet. He has published more than twenty volumes of poetry and won nearly every major American award for poetry, including a Pulitzer Prize in 1976 for his collection Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror. But Ashbery's work still proves controversial...
and Louis Zukofsky
Louis Zukofsky
Louis Zukofsky was an American poet. He was one of the founders and the primary theorist of the Objectivist group of poets and thus an important influence on subsequent generations of poets in America and abroad.-Life:...
, he has edited (with Emmanuel Hocquard
Emmanuel Hocquard
Emmanuel Hocquard is a French poet who 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 American poets, 21+1: Poètes américains ď aujourďhui and 49+1...
) two anthologies of American poetry, 21+1: Poètes améicains 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
Keith Waldrop
Keith Waldrop is the author of numerous books of poetry and prose, and has translated the work of Claude Royet-Journoud, Anne-Marie Albiach, and Edmond Jabès, among others. A recent translation is Charles Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du Mal .With his wife Rosmarie Waldrop, he co-edits Burning Deck Press...
) (1973); Até (tr. Keith Waldrop, 1981); "The Maternal Drape" or the Resititution (tr. Charles Bernstein
Charles Bernstein
Charles Bernstein is an American poet, theorist, editor, and literary scholar. Bernstein holds the Donald T. Regan Chair in the Department of English at the University of Pennsylvania. He is one of the most prominent members of the Language poets . In 2006 he was elected a Fellow of the American...
), 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
Michael Palmer
Michael Palmer is an American poet and translator. He attended Harvard University where he earned a BA in French and a MA in Comparative Literature. He has worked extensively with Contemporary dance for over thirty years and has collaborated with many composers and visual artists...
). His work has been translated into Greek, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Romanian.
The tetralogy mentioned above has been published in English translation by Keith Waldrop
Keith Waldrop
Keith Waldrop is the author of numerous books of poetry and prose, and has translated the work of Claude Royet-Journoud, Anne-Marie Albiach, and Edmond Jabès, among others. A recent translation is Charles Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du Mal .With his wife Rosmarie Waldrop, he co-edits Burning Deck Press...
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 MaulpoixJean-Michel MaulpoixJean-Michel Maulpoix was born on November 11, 1952 in Montbéliard, Doubs.The author of more than twenty volumes of French poetry and of several volumes of essays and criticism, he teaches modern French literature at the University Paris X Nanterre and is the director of the quarterly literary...