Publisher's Synopsis
Poetry. Translation. French author Franck Andre Jamme is the author of ten volumes of poetry.THE RECITATION OF FORGETTING, translated by John Ashbery, is his first book-length appearance in English. "The semitones have deserted us, that were near. Each color has made itself strong, twice pure, as though born of itself. She said, 'Look, blood is flowing, you dip your finger in it, you sense the syllables as they pass, skull then arm then finally hand, listen: yes, the eye sees, but most of all it illuminates, it is light as much as daylight is.' The world, unforgivable." Jamme is also the editor of Rene Char's complete works and an independent art curator. A chapbook of his work, EXTRACT FROM THE LIFE OF A BEETLE, previously published by Black Square Editions, is also available from SPD.
