READ 5

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

Poetry. French Studies. African Studies. Translation. Four French poets and four American poets walk into a bar... well, one of the American poets is originally from Germany and one of the French poets is Breton, 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. Contributors include Benedicte Vilgrain, Keith Waldrop, Paol Keineg, Rosmarie Waldrop, Anne Portugal, Jean- Jacques Poucel, Cole Swensen, and Virginie Poitrasson.

120 pages, Paperback

First published December 1, 2013

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.