Two Poems: Flammigère & The line the loss

by Anne-Marie Albiach, Peter Riley (Translator)

Anne-Marie Albiach (1937-2012) was one of France's leading avant-garde poets. Although much of her work has been translated and published in the USA, little has been available in Britain. This chapbook unites two texts from very early and very late in her career: Flammigère was her first book, a long poem published in 1967 as a limited edition by Siècle à Mains in London, where she was then living; 'La ligne … la perte' appeared in 1999 in a festschrift volume dedicated to fellow poet Claude Royet-Journoud and was later collected in the volume Figurations de l'image (Flammarion, Paris, 2004). Flammigère was never collected in any of Ms. Albiach's French volumes and she always declined permission for its republication, although her posthumous Collected rectified that. She did however permit an Italian translation and, in 2004, this English translation and Shearsman Books remains grateful for her permission to bring these two poems together.

Genres: Poetry

28 pages, A5 chapbook

First published January 1, 1967

About the author

Anne-Marie Albiach was a contemporary French poet and translator.

Reviews

[Mario · Rating 3 out of 5]

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earthen crystallization of words
the mind and its reptilian circumference
deep-sea eye intrinsic cyclops
arrived a fossil across the virginal ages of the earth
bearing artful tree-trunks
a habit of the sun’s
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[Sofia · Rating 1 out of 5]

Yeah, this is too similar to my own blagged work for me to appreciate it. Kind of depressing, all told.