From Comment(s)
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Plenty of excitement
That being said: rain isn’t really an event, not really. Something like the exact opposite of Brigadoon which is a village in
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The France Issue
Summer 2010
Poems
Frédéric Forte
Frédéric
Forte was born in Toulouse,
France
in 1973, and now lives in Paris. He is a
poet and a
member of the Oulipo. He worked as a bookseller for several years and
now
devotes himself entirely to writing. His books notably include Une
collecte (Courbevoie, France: Théâtre
Typographique, 2009), Toujours
perdue la
neuve entrée (Toulouse,
France: contrat maint, 2009), Comment(s)
(Bordeaux: Editions de l’Attente, 2006), Opéras-minute
(Théâtre
Typographique, 2005), and N/S
(Editions
de l’Attente, 2004, cowritten with Ian Monk, in French and English).
The original French texts presented here are excerpted from Comment(s).
English
translations
by
Michelle Noteboom
Michelle
Noteboom
is the author of The
Chia Letters (Zürich,
Switzerland:
Dusie Kollektiv, 2009) and Edging
(Chicago:
Cracked
Slab Books, 2006), which won the 2006 Heartland Poetry Prize. Hors-cage,
in French translation, has just been published by
Editions de l’Attente. Her work has appeared in Verse, Fence,
Boston Review,
Sentence, Columbia
Poetry Review, MiPOesias,
Los Angeles
Review, Slightly
West and
Van
Gogh’s Ear among
others. She's lived in Paris
since 1991 where she
co-curates the Ivy Writers Series with Jennifer K. Dick, a bilingual
reading series.
She works as a freelance
translator in the French audiovisual industry and also translates French
poetry.