Extracts from the Life of a Beetle

by Franck André Jamme

Poetry. Translated from the French by Michael Tweed. He also said: 'There are still strangers within you. They have had more than enough time to visit the house. Some even grabbed a room there, on the sly. But now they simply must go.' Franck Andre Jamme has published nine volumes of poetry and fragments since 1981. EXTRACTS FROM THE LIFE OF A BEETLE is a bright yellow chapbook from Black Square Editions.

20 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2000

About the author

Franck André Jamme has published fifteen books of poems and fragments since 1981, as well as numerous illustrated books (with Jaume Plensa, James Brown, Zao Wou Ki, Marc Couturier, Suzan Frecon, Yang Jie Chang, Olivier Debre, Acharya Vyakul, Philippe Favier). He has been praised by Edmond Jabes, Henri Michaux and René Char (whose Complete Works he has edited in La Pléiade), and has been translated by John Ashbery. He is also a specialist and curator of contemporary Indian Tantric, Brut and tribal arts (for Magiciens de la terre at Centre Pompidou, Fondation Cartier and Galerie du Jour/Agnes b., Paris, the CCA and Meridian Gallery, San Francisco, Feature Gallery, The Drawing Center and Lawrence Markey Gallery, NYC). He has published numerous works in the United States, including Moon Wood (Selavy Press, 2000); Extracts from the Life of a Beetle (Black Square, 2000); The Recitation of Forgetting (Black Square, 2003); Another Silent Attack (Black Square/Brooklyn Rail, 2006); New Exercises (Wave Books, 2008). He is one of the authors of The Yale Book of French Poetry, 2004. For his life work, he received in 2005 the Grand Prix de Poesie de la Societe des Gens de Lettres. He lives in Paris and Burgundy.

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excerpt from Extracts From the Life of a Beetle by Franck André Jamme:

Sometimes, he had noticed, the moon could change into
a thought and come to plant itself firmly in a skull.