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’s Memoirs from Beyond the Grave (NYRB Classics).