Charles Bernstein | Juliette Valéry
introduced by Omar Berrada
Charles Bernstein
«Thank You for Saying Thank You» (from «Let's Just Say» in
Girly Man), «A Test
of Poetry» (from
My Way. Speeches and
Poems), and an extract from the libretto
for the opera
Shadowtime.
Translated and read by Juliette Valéry.
Galerie éof | 25.10.04
Jean-François Bory | Rosmarie Waldrop
introduced by Sarah Riggs
Jean-François Bory
«Rome, café Greco», «Hôtel Régina,
chambre 64», «Échec au poème», «Le
goût frénétique», «Big Bang», «Autobiographie», «M. Gutenberg», «C'est seulement
une manière».
English translations
by Sarah Riggs.
Rosmarie Waldrop
Excerpts from
Blindsight (New Directions,
2003), translated by Omar Berrada
and
Vincent Broqua. Excerpts from
The
Reproduction of Profiles (New Directions,
1987), translated by Jacques Roubaud (
La
reproduction des profils, Melville, 2003).
French translations read by Omar Berrada.
Galerie éof | 17.11.04
Rae Armantrout | Philippe Beck
introduced by
Vincent Broqua and Omar
Berrada
Rae Armantrout
Poems from
Veil, New and Selected Poems
and
Up to Speed (Wesleyan, 2001 & 2004),
translated by Claire Guillot and read by
Vincent Broqua.
Philippe Beck
Excerpts from
Elégies Hé (théatre typographique,
2004).
Galerie éof | 11.12.04
Cécile Mainardi | Joe Ross | Yannick
Liron
introduced by
Vincent Broqua
Cécile Mainardi
«La blondeur» (Les Petits Matins, 2006),
translated and read by Michelle Noteboom.
Joe Ross
Poems from An American Voyage (Sun &
Moon Press, 1993),
EQUATIONS = equals
(Green Integer, 2004) and
Full Silence
(Upper Limit Music, 1995). Translations
by
Vincent Broqua.
Yannick
Liron
Video by Marie Herbreteau and
Yannick
Liron with extracts from
L'Annonciation
(P.O.L., 2004).
Galerie éof | 27.03.05
Jacques Roubaud | Keith Waldrop
introduced by Omar Berrada
Jacques Roubaud
«Correspondance»; «Histoire d'un
amour» ; sonnets from
Churchill 40 (Gallimard,
2004).
Keith Waldrop
Excerpts from
The Real Subject: Queries
and Conjectures of Jacob Delafon with
Sample Poems (Omnidawn, 2004); translated
and read by Olivier Brossard.
Galerie éof | 20.04.05
Norma Cole | Emmanuel Hocquard
introduced by Sarah Riggs and Omar
Berrada
Norma Cole
A little a & a (Seeing Eye Books, 2002)
translated by
Abigail Lang, read by
Norma Cole,
Emmanuel Hocquard and
Abigail Lang.
Emmanuel Hocquard
L'invention du verre (P.O.L., 2003)
Point Éphémère | 05.18.05
Cole Swensen
introduced
Vincent Broqua
a talk on ekphrasis.
Poems from
Such Rich Hour (Kuhl House
Poets Series, 2001),
The Glass Age (Alice
James Books, 2007), and
Ours (University
of California Press, 2008).
Université Paris XII | 20.05.05
Valérie Mréjen | Bill Berkson
introduced by Olivier Brossard
Valérie Mrejen
«Finir son assiette» (
Fridge exhibition
catalogue, Paris, 2002), translated into
English and read by Emmelene Landon.
Bill Berkson
poems from
Blue is the Hero (L publications,
1976),
Serenade (Zoland, 2000),
Fugue State (Zoland, 2001) and
Gloria
(Arion Press, 2004), translated into
French and read by Clément Oudart.
Point Éphémère | 17.06.05
Walt Whitman Hom(m)age 2005-1855
a reading introduced by Olivier Brossard
and Eric Athenot
All poems from
Whitman Hom(m)age
2005/1855 (Turtle Point Press & Joca
Seria, 2005) except « The Grand Republic's
Poet » by Edward Denby read by Bill
Berkson, a poem by Saadi Yousseff read
by Jorie Graham, « After Lucki Lucrece »
by Stephen Rodefer and poems by Emily
Dickinson and Walt Whitman.
Readers in order of appearance: Trevor
Winkfield, Martin Richet, Antoine Cazé,
Olivier Brossard, Bill Berkson, Eric
Athenot, Jorie Graham, Stephen Rodefer,
Ladislas Karsenty and Oriane Monthéard,
Marc Chénetier,
Vincent Broqua, Guy
Bennett,
Abigail Lang, Vincent Dussol,
Sarah Riggs, Omar Berrada, Béatrice
Trotignon, Andrew Zawacki.
Reid Hall | 05.07.05
