Vol 2 No 1 2008

Marie ÉtienneMarilyn Hacker

La preuve par les oiseaux

The sequence from the book "King of a Hundred Horsemen" by the French poet Marie Etienne. The original book, Roi des cent cavaliers, was published by Flammarion in 2002.  Marilyn Hacker's translation will be published in the United States by Farrar Strauss & Giroux in the late fall of 2008. Other sections of this book, in Hacker's translation, have appeared in Pleiades, Mantis, Poetry Review, New Letters , WordsWithoutBorders and Crazyhorse.

Marie Étienne, is the author of eight books of poems including Dormans (2007) and Roi des Cent Cavaliers (2002), five novels and two books on the theater. Anatolie (Flammarion) received the Prix Mallarmé in 1998. She lives in Paris, where she is a frequent contributor to La Quinzaine littéraire.

Marie Étienne

photo credit Sandra Monciardini