Prisme-Partition. Réfractions de l‘image et configurations de la voix dans un poème visuel
Authors
Mary Shaw
Abstract
“Quartet/Quatuor” is an experiment in voice and image. The English poem by Mary Shaw, its translation by the poet herself, François Cornilliat, Michael Bishop, and Christopher Elson, along with Shaw's reflection upon her own text as both a prism (a differenciator of colours, possible visibilities) and a score (a painstaking visual organization, shareable, musical and singing) bring to the fore a series of fundamental issues for contemporary poetics. We find in this text the confrontation of the space of the page and the interior voice as well as that of the vertical and horizontal axes of a poetry which is to a certain extent concrete with the psychological and dramatic elements of a (non) dialogue among (at least) four figures of an everyday and yet marvelous story of encounter and discovery.
Author Biography
Mary Shaw
Mary Shaw is a poet and professor of French Literature at Rutgers University – New Brunswick (New Jersey). Along with such critical works as Performance in the Texts of Mallarmé (1993), The Cambridge Introduction to French Poetry (2003), and Visible Writings: Forms, Cultures, Readings (co-edited with Marija Dalbello, 2011), she has edited and translated Entangled - Papers! - Notes, a bilingual volume of poetry by Claude Mouchard (2017), and published two bilingual children‘s books and a collection of poems, Album Without Pictures (2008). Her dreamscapes regularly appear in the online journal Transitions, and have also appeared in Hyperion: The Future of Aesthetics (2017) and in the journals Po&sie (2015) and Versants (2015) in French translations. She is currently working on gathering a first volume of these texts.
