Jacques Dupin – författare

'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).