READ 3

by Sarah Riggs, Cole Swensen (Editor)

Poetry. French Studies. African Studies. Translation. Three French poets and five American poets walk into a bar...OK..OK...so one of the American poets lives in Berlin and another is also a visual artist. And it was really a cultural institute that they walked into. And spent a week translating each other's work. Trading notes. Lounging in the garden. Improvising solutions—and walking into the bar across the street. This is READ. Read the results.

80 pages, Paperback

First published January 3, 2012

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.

Reviews

[Carly Laughlin · Rating 4 out of 5]

I found this in a free little library and got it to practice my French. Overall it was good, though a couple translations were incorrect, and one translation was missing a verse or two (not sure if this was intentional). There are some great poems in here that sound good in both English and French, so I enjoyed it.