Claude Royet-Journoud


Claude Royet-Journoud is a contemporary French poet and artist living in Paris.

Overview

Royet-Journoud's publications in French include his tetralogy, published between 1972 and 1997: Le Renversement, La Notion d'Obstacle, Les Objets contiennent l'infini, and Les Natures indivisibles. He was also co-founder & co-editor of the journal Siècle à mains. A champion of American poetry since the 1960s, when he translated George Oppen and published John Ashbery and Louis Zukofsky, he has edited two anthologies of American poetry, 21+1: Poètes américains d'aujourd'hui and 49+1: nouveaux poètes américains. 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 ; Até ; "The Maternal Drape" or the Resititution , and Theory of Prepositions.
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, Toward a New Poetics , and Code of Signals. His work has been translated into Greek, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Romanian, Norwegian and Swedish.
The tetralogy mentioned above has been published in English translation by Keith Waldrop as : Reversal ; The Notion of Obstacle, and Objects Contain the Infinite. Selections of Les Natures indivisibles have appeared, in Keith Waldrop's translation, as: A Descriptive Method, i.e., and The Right Wall of the Heart Effaced.