Anne-Marie Albiach (9 August 1937 – 4 November 2012) was a contemporary French

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Overview

Anne-Marie Albiach's was a renowned French poet and writer born in Saint -Nazaire, France on 9 August 1937. Anne- Marie Albiach became well known with the publication of her poetry titled état in 1971. Albiach is a respected and an influential figure for her contribution to contemporary Women's poetry. Anne-Marie was known to originate her personal experiences pared down to impersonal and for deviating from traditional syntax and semantics. Albiach is also known for her famous poetry collection Mezza Voce. In the opening section of Mezza Voce, Albiach's interest in the intersecting trajectories of language and the body is articulated through discursive cadences of prose poetry characterized by, among other things, 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

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and Rosmarie Waldrop via Burning Deck, their influential small press.

Works

*''État'' (1971); in English: tr. Keith Waldrop. (Windsor, VT: Awede Press, 1989) * ''Mezza Voce'' (1984); in English: tr. Joseph Simas in collaboration with Anthony Barnett,

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. (Sausalito, CA: Post-Apollo Press, 1988) * ''Anawratha'' (1984) * ''Figure Vocative'' (1985); in English: ''"Vocative Figure"'', tr. Anthony Barnett & Joseph Simas. (Allardyce Books, 1992) * ''Le chemin de l'hermitage'' (1986) * ''A Geometry'', tr. Keith & Rosmarie Waldrop. (Providence, RI: Burning Deck, 1998) * ''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)

Critical works on Albiach's writing and interviews

*Wellman, Donald.
Albiach / Celan / Reading Across Languages
' (Annex 2016) 978-09975496-0-7. *Daive, Jean. "Urgency and Negation as Response: Anne-Marie Albiach and Paul Celan" in ''Albiach / Celan / Reading Across Languages.'' *''Collected Interviews'' with Jean Daive, in French, under the title: ''Anne-Marie Albiach L'Exact Réel.'' (Marseille, Eric Pesty Editeur, 2006) * 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. **''Le Théâtre du poème : vers Anne-Marie Albiach''. Paris, éd. Belin, 1995. (Coll. l'extrême contemporaine.) ** « Poésie flammigère » ''A noir''. Paris, Seuil, 1992. pp 209–223. (Coll. fiction & cie.) * Nelson, Gale. « Works of Anne-Marie Albiach tat, 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.

References

Staff, Harriet. “R.I.P. Anne-Marie Albiach by Harriet Staff.” Poetry Foundation, Poetry Foundation, www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2012/11/rip-anne-marie-albiach

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.

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