2014
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In this addition to the Cahier Series, through two sequences of poems, American poet Idra Novey explores several notions of translation. In the first sequence, Letters to Clarice, she channels her recent experience of translating work by the Brazilian novelist Clarice Lispector, sending Lispector poems in the form of letters. In the second sequence, Regarding Marmalade, Cognates, and Visitors, she discovers in what way translating relates to the activity of hosting visitors, most important of whom is her newborn son. Idra Novey’s texts are complemented by illustrations by the artist Erica Baum, whose images of books both invite and resist attempts to read them.
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Author
Idra Novey
Author · 9 books
Idra Novey is the award-winning author of WAYS TO DISAPPEAR and THOSE WHO KNEW. Her new novel TAKE WHAT YOU NEED is set in the Allegheny Highlands of Appalachia where parts of her family have lived for over a century. She's written for The Atlantic, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times and she received a 2022 Pushcart Prize for her story The Glacier. Her fiction and poetry have been translated into a dozen languages. She teaches fiction at Princeton University and in the MFA Program at NYU.
