ALBIACH, Anne-Marie
Figured Image

Bound by a geometry where language and body converge, this collection of poetry offers a lyricism that "breathes differently," luring the reader down darkening roads of memory, desire, and chance.

"Anne-Marie Albiach's words are never alone on the page, having each other for company, just as they find here ideal companionship in Keith Waldrop's translation. In Figurations de l'image, Albiach pursues her rigorous investigation into the possibilities of measure, the perceptible, luminescence, vulnerability, memory, contour, ardor, breath, oscillation, remonstration, trajectory, disparity, abstraction, antecedence, disparity, refraction, trace, tapestry, rehearsal, reverberation, and the irreparable. In these poems, the figures refute image as they bank, relapse, surge, palsy, recollect. Albiach scores space to twine time, abjures rhyme to make blank shimmer in the mark."
—Charles Bernstein

Published by The Post-Apollo Press, 2006
Design by Simone Fattal
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