Dear Gabriel Gudding
I"d be happy to review the Jacques Roubaud book. I did review an earlier
one of his.
If you like, do send it to me at Department of English, Queens College,
65-30 Kissena Boulvard, Flushing, NY 11367-1597.
Sincerely
Harriet Zinnes
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From: "Gabriel Gudding" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Monday, April 17, 2006 12:52 AM
Subject: reviewers needed: Jacques Roubaud book -- translators Rosmarie &
Keith Waldrop
> Was emailing with one of the whiz kids at Dalkey Archive Press the other
> day: Dalkey's looking for reviewers for a new edition of Jacques Roubaud's
> work translated by the Waldrops. See below for information --
> and for the contact info at Dalkey in the event you're interested in
> reading and reviewing this coolio book. -- Gabe
>
>
> Title: The Form of a City Changes Faster, Alas, Than the Human Heart
>
> Author: Jacques Roubaud
>
> Translators: Keith and Rosmarie Waldrop
>
> Pub Date: July 18, 2006
> Pages: 247
> Price: $13.95
>
> Galleys: Available for anyone who would like to consider it for review
>
> Contact: Chad Post at [log in to unmask]
>
> Jacket Copy: An homage and response to many of France's best-known poets,
> including Charles Baudelaire and Raymond Queneau, this collection moves
> through the streets of Paris, commenting on its inhabitants, its writers,
> its monumental past, and all its possible futures. Moving between honesty
> and evasion, erudition and lightheartedness, constraint and freedom, THE
> FORM OF A CITY CHANGES FASTER, ALAS, THAN THE HUMAN HEART explores a Paris
> that's no long "the one we used to find." A sometimes mocking, sometimes
> poignant tribute to the City of Light, Jacques Roubaud's poetry is filled
> with the melancholic playfulness that's made him one of our most important
> contemporary writers.
>
> Author Bio: Jacques Roubaud is the author of numerous books, including the
> novels Hortense Is Abducted, Hortense in Exile, and The Princess Hoppy, or
> The Tale of Labrador, as well as the poetry collections Some Thing Black,
> Plurality of Worlds of Lewis, and The Form of a City Changes Faster, Alas,
> Than the Human Heart. He is one of the most accomplished members of the
> Oulipo, an innovative literary group whose members whose members have
> included Raymond Queneau, Italo Calvino, and Harry Mathews.
>
>
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