Poetry Magazine

Marie-Claire Bancquart

• [It's been two thousand years now]
• [Le vent secoue le souvenir par les fenêtres] / [Wind shakes memory by the windows]
• [Every morning we set out again]
• [As for me, I love an older man]

Supervielle Silvia Baron

• [Il se tient encore debout] / [He still remains standing]
• [Plus j'egare la mémoire]] / [The more I lose memory]

Tahar Ben

• [L'eau n'aime ce pays que de temps en temps] / [Water only loves this land once in a while]
• [The man who knows the secret of the desert]
• [Sounds from the distant world]

Yves Bonnefoy

• From La Pluie d'été / From Summer Rain

Andrée Chedid

• Remous / Eddies
• In this Street
• Face to Face

William Cliff

• From Autobiographie / From Autobiography

François De Cornière

• À quoi tu penses? / What Are You Thinking About?
• Did You See the Starlings?

Paul De Roux

• La Rue profonde / The Deep Street
• The Rain
• The Day's Labour
• Winter Sky
• The Cold Again
• The Invisible Layer

Michel De Smet

• Le Point du jour / Break of Day

Michel Deguy

• [Tout Polyphonix échoua down town] / [All Polyphonix washed up downtown]

Philippe Delaveau

• Matin D'Hiver / Winter Morning
• Night Blessings
• Summertime
• The Voice of Summer

Heather Dohollau

• 3 Poèmes du Purgatoire / 3 Poems of Purgatory
• Matter of Light

André Du Bouchet

• Lettre / Letter
• Stone or Water
• Swiftness

Claude Esteban

• From Sur la dernière lande / From On the Last Heath

Dominique Fourcade

• Braille manque de mains / Braille Misses Hands

Lorand Gaspar

• La Maison prés de la mer (2) / House by the Sea (2)

Edouard Glissant

• Pour Mycéa / For Mycea

Guy Goffette

• Les Corbeaux / Crows

Julien Gracq

• From Prose de l'étrangère / From Prose for the Foreign One

Christian Hubin

• [Couloir dans le crépuscule] / [Corridor in the dusk]
• [Networks under the forests]
• [Corroded substances, leaves]

Geneviève Huttin

• From Paris: Litanie des Cafés / From Paris: Litany of the Cafés

Phillippe Jaccottet

• Leçons / Learning

Gil Jouanard

• Coda de l'itinérant figé / Coda of the Fixed Itinerant

Charles Juliet

• [Often when he was advancing]
• [Quand to ne savais rien] / [When you knew nothing]
• [The one who has not gone]
• [When the eye has finally made itself clear]

Hédi Kaddour

• Verlaine / Verlaine
• The Nightmare
• Six-Thirty

Vénus Khoury-Ghata

• [Inutile de ressemeler nos livres] / [No use re-soling our books]
• [She used to throw her old crockery at the moon]
• [We made fires which licked the clouds' chasubles]

Claire Malroux

• Prehistoric
• Aubade / Alba
• Pedestrian

Robert Marteau

• [Les plantes et les planètes] / [Plants and planets]
• [Je consens que tout s'efface] / [I consent to everything vanishing]
• [Qui froisse à Delphes le laurier] / [Who bruises the laurel at Delphi]

Pierre Martory

• Town Hall, Fifteenth Arrondissement
• Bastille
• Fragment

Jean-Michel Maulpoix

• from Une Histoire de Bleu / From A Story of Blue

Pascale Monnier

• L'été / Summer

Geneviève Pastre

• [Je suis le navigateur maladroit] / [I am the awkward navigator]
• [Yesterday morning I woke up]
• [I plunged into her troubled, roiling waters]

Jacques Roubaud

• Parmi beaucoup de poèmes / Among Many Poems
• Amsterdam Street
• Dream of February 11, 19...
• Dream of August 17, 19...

James Sacré

• Le Renard est un mot qui ruse / The Fox Is a Cunning Word

Jude Stéfan

• Omnes Scribebant

André Velter

• Bastille / Bastille
• Sand and Ashes

Jacques Réda

• Un citadin / A City Dweller
• A Drama in Luxembourg Gardens
• The Errand

Louis-René Des Forét

• From Ostinato / From Ostinato

Averill Curdy

• Is Anybody Out There? : Essay