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The final works of one of France's most renowned poets, now translated into English for the first time.
New translations of Emmanuel Hocquard's ruminative, lyrical poems, Elegies is the culmination of the French master's work before his death in 2019. Translator Cole Swensen is one of the most accomplished translators of French literature working today and her renditions of Hocquard's last poems are transcendent.
Emmanuel Hocquard (1940-2019) was a French poet, editor, and translator who grew up in Tangiers. He is the author of over twenty books, including The Invention of Glass and Theory of Tables, and he has translated into French the work of writers such as Charles Renikoff, Paul Auster, Michael Palmer, and Fernando Pessoa.
Cole Swensen is a poet, editor, and translator from the French. She is the author of twenty collections of poetry and is the founding editor of La Presse Books. Her awards include a Guggenheim Fellowship, a PEN USA Award for Literary Translation, the 2024 National Translation Award in Poetry, and the Iowa Poetry Prize.