Anne-Marie Albiach (born in 1937) is a contemporary French poet and translator.

Overview

Anne-Marie Albiach's poetry is characterized by, among other things, an inventive use of spacing on the printed page. With Claude Royet-Journoud and Michel Couturier, she co-edited the magazine Siécle a mains, where she first published her translation of Louis Zukofsky's "A-9".

Today, Albiach is associated in France with poets Claude Royet-Journoud and Emmanuel Hocquard, all three being, at various times, translated and published by the American poets Keith Waldrop and Rosmarie Waldrop via Burning Deck, the influential small press the Waldrops run.

Works

• État (1971); in English: tr. Keith Waldrop. (Windsor, VT: Awede Press, 1989) ISBN 0-942433-13-0
• Mezza Voce (1984); in English: tr. Joseph Simas in collaboration with Anthony Barnett, Lydia Davis & Douglas Oliver. (Sausalito, CA: Post-Apollo Press, 1988) ISBN 0-942996-11-9
• Anawratha (1984)
• Figure Vocative (1985); in English: "Vocative Figure", tr. Anthony Barnett & Joseph Simas. (Allardyce Books, 1992) ISBN 0-907954-18-9
• Le chemin de l'hermitage (1986)
• A Geometry, tr. Keith & Rosmarie Waldrop. (Providence, RI: Burning Deck, 1998) ISBN 1-886224-31-5
• A Discursive, Space: Interviews with Jean Daive tr. Norma Cole. (Duration Press, 1999).
• Two Poems: Flammigère & the Line ... the Loss tr. Peter Riley (Shearsman Books, 2004)
• Figured Image (tr. Keith Waldrop of Figurations de l'image ). (Post-Apollo Press, 2006) ISBN 978-0-942996-59-3

Critical Works on Albiach's writing, and interviews

• COLLECTED INTERVIEWS with Jean DAIVE, in French, under the title: Anne-Marie Albiach L-Exact Réel. (Marseille, Eric Pesty Editeur, 2006) ISBN 2-9524961-2-9
• Special issue of the CCP/ Cahier Critique de Poésie : Dossier Anne-Marie Albiach. Centre International de Poésie, Marseille : éditions farrago/Léo Scheer, Vol 5, n° 1, 2002/2003.
• GLEIZE Jean-Marie. Anne-Marie Albiach. Paris, Seghers, 1992.
• GLEIZE Jean-Marie. Le Théâtre du poème : vers Anne-Marie Albiach. Paris, éd. Belin, 1995. (Coll. l-extrême contemporaine.)
• GLEIZE Jean-Marie. « Poésie flammigère » A noir. Paris, Seuil, 1992. pp 209-223. (Coll. fiction & cie.)
• NELSON Gale, « Works of Anne-Marie Albiach [Etat, Mezza Voce], Susan Howe and Edmond Jabès » in Cathay, USA, 1993.
• NURIDSANY Michel. « Souveraine Anne-Marie Albiach » in Le Figaro newspaper, Paris, Friday 27 April 1984.
• RAMOS Peter. -On Abiach- in Verse Magazine (published by Univ. of Richmond, VA, USA) Special issue on: -French Poetry & Poetics-, v 24, n°s 1-3, 2007. pp 319-321.
• SIMAS Joseph. « Entretien avec Joseph Simas » followed by « Notes en marge de l-entretien » by Anne-Marie ALBIACH, Ex n°4, second trimestre 1985. Re-published in the magazine Nioques n°3 under the title « Anne-marie ALBIACH et Joseph SIMAS, Entretien du 13 Juillet 1984 », June 1991.
• SWENSEN Cole. « Against the Limits of Language: The Geometries of Anne-Marie Albiach and Susan Howe. » in Moving Borders: Three Decades of Innovative Writing By Women. ed. Mary Margaret SLOAN. Jersey City, New Jersey, Talisman House Publishers, 1998. pp 630-641.

External links

• French Poetry since 1950: Tendencies III by Jean-Michel Maulpoix
• "On ne rachètera pas la vieille Lyre" by C. ANDRIOT-SAILLANT, an article on Albiach's writing. (French)
• "Des poètes français contemporains: Quelques mouvances" et "De la poésie aujourd'hui." adpf. 15 mai 2002. (French)
• Two Poems: Flammigère & The line . . . the lossPDF (109 KiB) in English translation at Shearsman Books