Read

by Sarah Riggs (Editor), Cole Swensen (Editor)

Poetry. French Studies. African Studies. Translation. READ features contemporary poetry in French and in English. The works are the results of an annual translation seminar held at Reid Hall in Paris. Participants included Charles Alexander, Marie Borel, Vincent Broqua, Frederic Forte, Pierre Joris, Jean-Jacques Poucel, Sarah Riggs, and Habib Tengour. All work is presented in its original and in translation.

156 pages, Paperback

First published September 15, 2009

About the author

Sarah Riggs is the author of five books of poetry in English: Waterwork (2007), Chain of Minuscule Decisions in the Form of a Feeling (2007), 60 Textos (2010), Autobiography of Envelopes (2012), and Pomme & Granite (2015). She has translated and co-translated six books of contemporary French poetry into English, including most recently Oscarine Bosquet’s Present Participle and Etel Adnan’s Time. Sarah Riggs lives in Brooklyn, NY.