Emmanuel Hocquard
Emmanuel Hocquard was a French poet.Life
He grew up in Tangier, Morocco. He served as the editor of the small press Orange Export Ltd. and, with Claude Royet-Journoud, edited two anthologies of new American poets, 21+1: Poètes américains ď aujourďhui and 49+1.
In 1989, Hocquard founded and directed "Un bureau sur l'Atlantique", an association fostering relations between French and American poets.
Besides poetry, he has written essays, a novel, and translated American and Portuguese poets including Charles Reznikoff, Michael Palmer, Paul Auster, Benjamin Hollander, Antonio Cisneros, and Fernando Pessoa. With the artist Alexandre Delay, he made a video film, Le Voyage à Reykjavik.Awards and honors
- 2013 Best Translated Book Award, shortlist, The Invention of Glass
Books in English translation
- A Day in the Strait, translated by Maryann De Julio & Jane Staw, ; "narration"
- Late Additions, translated by Rosmarie Waldrop and Connell McGrath, "Serie d'Ecriture Nº 2", ; poems
- Elegies & Other Poems, translated by John A. Scott, ; poetry
- Aerea in the Forests of Manhattan, translated by Lydia Davis, ; novel
- Of Mists and Clouds, translated by Mark Hutchinson,.
- Elegy 7, translated by Pam Rehm & Keith Waldrop, "Serie d'Ecriture Nº 7", ; poetry
- Theory of Tables, translated by Michael Palmer, Afterword translation by Norma Cole, ; poems
- The Garden of Sallust and other writings, translated by Mark Hutchinson,.
- The Library at Trieste, translated by Mark Hutchinson, ; a talk given in 1987 at the University of California, San Diego
- This Story Is Mine: Little Autobiographical Dictionary of Elegy translated by Norma Cole, ; poems
- Codicil & Plan for Pond 4, translated by Ray DiPalma & Juliette Valéry, ; poems
- A Test of Solitude: Sonnets, translated by Rosmarie Waldrop, ; poems
- Conditions of Light, translated by Jean-Jacques Poucel, ; poems
- The Invention of Glass, translated by Cole Swensen and Rod Smith, ; poems
