Claude Royet-Journoud (born 8 September 1941 in

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) is a contemporary

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and

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living in

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Overview

Royet-Journoud's publications in French include his

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, published between 1972 and 1997: ''Le Renversement'', ''La Notion d'Obstacle'', ''Les Objets contiennent l'infini'', and ''Les Natures indivisibles'' (1972, 1978, 1983, 1997). He was also co-founder & co-editor (with

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and Michel Couturier) of the journal ''Siècle à mains'' (1963–1970). A champion of

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since the 1960s, when he translated

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and published

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and

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, he has edited (with

Emmanuel Hocquard Emmanuel Hocquard (11 April 1940 – 27 January 2019) was a French poet. Life He grew up in Tangier, Morocco. He served as the editor of the small press ''Orange Export Ltd.'' and, with Claude Royet-Journoud, edited two anthologies of new Amer ...

) two anthologies of American poetry, ''21+1: Poètes américains d'aujourd'hui'' (1986) and ''49+1: nouveaux poètes américains'' (1991). He also edited the small journal, "Zuk", in which appeared French translations of works by American poets. Other publications that have appeared in translation include: ''The Crowded Circle'' (tr.

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) (1973); ''Até'' (tr. Keith Waldrop, 1981); ''"The Maternal Drape" or the Resititution'' (tr.

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), 1985), and ''Theory of Prepositions'' (tr. Keith Waldrop, 2006). Royet-Journoud's work has appeared in journals and magazines such as ''Acts'', ''Conjunctions'', ''Temblor'', ''o-blek'', ''New Directions'', ''Moving Letters'', ''Lingo'', with interviews appearing in ''Lingo # 4'' (1995), ''Toward a New Poetics'' (1994) (ed. Serge Gavronsky), and ''Code of Signals'' (ed. Michael Palmer). His work has been translated into Greek, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Romanian, Norwegian and Swedish.Author Page at ''Duration Press''
includes the interview on-line which first appeared in ''Code of Signals'' (see above) The tetralogy mentioned above has been published in English translation by

as : ''Reversal'' (1973); ''The Notion of Obstacle'' (1985), and ''Objects Contain the Infinite'' (1995). Selections of ''Les Natures indivisibles'' have appeared, in Keith Waldrop's translation, as: ''A Descriptive Method'' (1995), ''i.e.''(1995), and ''The Right Wall of the Heart Effaced'' (1999).

External links

French Poetry since 1950: Tendencies III
by Jean-Michel Maulpoix

Notes

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