Notched

'Write from the beginning, for someone, for no one, write for the stones? write for a stranger, for a blind man, for a blind man unknown?' Notched is translated from Jacques Dupin's mesmerising Échancré (P.O.L, 1991). Jacques Dupin was a double laureate of the Grand prix national de la poésie and the Grand prix de poésie de l'Académie française. Alex Andriesse is a poet and has translated, notably, Chateaubriand'sMemoirs from Beyond the Grave(NYRB Classics).