The Next Loves. Stéphane Bouquet

Аннотация:

*Author is a key figure in French contemporary poetry as a writer, publisher and literary critic.*Author is also a successful screenwriter of several French films, and contributes literary and film criticism to du Monde, Libération, and Cahiers du Cinema.*Author wrote screenplays for beloved queer movies Presque rien (Come Undone) and Wild Side.*Author is former film critic and editor at Cahiers du Cinéma, author of screenplays and several books about film (including on Pasolini, Gus Van Sant, Eisenstein).*Author is former dancer and dramatist for Mathilde Monnier Dance Company. *Author is winner of 2007 Mission Stendhal Award (project to write Les Amours suivants) 2003 Prix de Rome (for the books so far written at that time), 2017 French Voices Grant (for translation of SB’s next book, Vie Commune), Woodberry Poetry Room WPR Creative Grant, 2016-17*This book will appeal to American audiences already interested in French / Francophone poetry in translation (i.e., books published by La Press, Litmus, poets like Emmanuel Hocquard etc.) or interested in translated literature generally. It will also be of interest to American audiences familiar with the New York school directly or at a remove. Finally, it will be of interest to LGBTQIA readers and to a certain group of left-leaning readers interested in the political / utopian possibilities of literature.