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'To write from the start, for someone, for no one, to write for the stones... to write for a stranger, for a blind man, for a blind stranger...'Notched is translated from Jacques Dupin's mesmerising Echancre (P.O.L, 1991). Jacques Dupin was a double laureate of the Grand prix national de la poesie and the Grand prix de poesie de l'Academie francaise. Alex Andriesse is a poet and has translated, notably, Chateaubriand's Memoirs from Beyond the Grave (NYRB Classics).
'To write from the start, for someone, for no one, to write for the stones... to write for a stranger, for a blind man, for a blind stranger...'Notched is translated from Jacques Dupin's mesmerising Echancre (P.O.L, 1991). Jacques Dupin was a double laureate of the Grand prix national de la poesie and the Grand prix de poesie de l'Academie francaise. Alex Andriesse is a poet and has translated, notably, Chateaubriand's Memoirs from Beyond the Grave (NYRB Classics).