{"product_id":"the-flirt-formula-paperback","title":"The Flirt Formula - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAnne Portugal\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eJean-Jacques Poucel\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe poems go two by two across facing pages, where they press against each other, connect, and go forth in a tremulous manifesto. The result is a syntactical vertigo poised above nothingness. The halves meet only in an instant, suggesting that the crux of poetry is the art of not quite touching.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eWe loved to surrender hardly located know\u003cbr\u003ethat we were the ruin\u003cbr\u003ejust juxtaposed bouquets\u003cbr\u003ethat each of us had a social hook\u003cbr\u003eminimum tender\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAnne Portugal \u003c\/b\u003elives and teaches in Paris, France. She is the author of numerous volumes of experimental poetry.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTranslator \u003cb\u003eJean-Jacques Poucel \u003c\/b\u003eis a scholar of French poetry and comparative poetics, and lives in Paris, France.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAnne Portugal\u003c\/b\u003e's first collection, \u003ci\u003eLa licence qu'on appelle autrement parrh?sie, \u003c\/i\u003e was published in the collective \u003ci\u003eCahier de po?sie 3\u003c\/i\u003e by ?ditions Gallimard in 1980. Since then she has published several texts with the well-known publisher of the experimental, P.O.L., including \u003ci\u003eLes commodit?s d'une banquette\u003c\/i\u003e (1985), \u003ci\u003eDe quoi faire un mur\u003c\/i\u003e (1987), Le plus simple appareil (1992), translated into English by Norma Cole and published under the title \u003ci\u003eNude\u003c\/i\u003e by Kelsey St. Press in 2001, \u003ci\u003eDans la reproduction en deux parties ?gales des plantes et des animaux\u003c\/i\u003e (1999) and \u003ci\u003ed?finitif bob\u003c\/i\u003e (2002), which was translated by Jennifer Moxley and published under the title absolute \u003ci\u003ebob\u003c\/i\u003e by Burning Deck Press. Burning Deck has also published a chapbook, \u003ci\u003eQuisit Moment\u003c\/i\u003e (2008), translated by Rosmarie Waldrop. Portugal is a prodigious traveler has represented France in numerous international conferences and festivals, such as those in China, Norway, Poland, the United States, and Korea. Born in Angers, France in 1949, she lives and teaches in Paris. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eJean-Jacques Poucel\u003c\/b\u003e is a scholar of French poetry and comparative poetics. His first critical book, \u003ci\u003eJacques Roubaud and the Invention of Memory\u003c\/i\u003e was published by the University of North Carolina Press in 2006; he has also published poems (in \u003ci\u003eREAD\u003c\/i\u003e, 2007, 2008, 2010), and co-edited two collections of critical essays, \u003ci\u003ePereckonings: Reading Georges Perec\u003c\/i\u003e (Yale French Studies, 105) and \u003ci\u003eConstraint Writing I \u0026amp; II\u003c\/i\u003e (Poetics Today, 30.4 [2009] \u0026amp; 31.1 [2010]). He co-coordinates the Whitney Humanity Center's \"Working Group in Contemporary Poetics\" at Yale University, serves as a contributing editor for \u003ci\u003eDrunken Boat\u003c\/i\u003e, and is a member of Double Change, an international collective working with French and American poetry and its dissemination through translation and public readings. He has also translated prose and poetry by Sabine Macher, Jacques Roubaud, Jean-Michel Espitalier, S?bastien Smirou, Rob Halpern, and Nancy Kuhl. His translation of Emmanuel Hocquard's book \u003ci\u003eConditions of Light\u003c\/i\u003e was published by La Presse in 2010.\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 88\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.3 x 7.9 x 5.9 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e July 24, 2012\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45859420897477,"sku":"9781934200537","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0757\/6718\/5605\/files\/1n5Lt83_Pa9781934200537.webp?v=1771526819","url":"https:\/\/selloorium.com\/products\/the-flirt-formula-paperback","provider":"Selloorium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}