Emmanuel Hocquard
Emmanuel Hocquard (11 April 1940 – 27 January 2019) was a French poet.
Emmanuel Hocquard

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- Name
- Emmanuel Hocquard
- Born
- 11 April 1940
- Birthplace
- Cannes, France
- Died
- 27 January 2019
- Place of death
- Mérilheu, Hautes-Pyrénées, France
- Movement
- "Un bureau sur l'Atlantique"
- Full name
- Emmanuel Marie Hocquard.
- Nationality
- France.
- Occupation
- linguist, poet, translator, writer and journalist.
- Education
- International Writing Program.
- Honours
- Prix France Culture.
- Languages
- French.
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• Name — Emmanuel Hocquard • Born — 11 April 1940 • Birthplace — Cannes, France • Died — 27 January 2019 • Place of death — Mérilheu, Hautes-Pyrénées, France • Language — French • Movement — "Un bureau sur l'Atlantique"
Life
Life
He grew up in Tangier, Morocco. He served as the editor of the small press Orange Export Ltd. and, with Claude Royet-Journoud, edited two anthologies of new American poets, 21+1: Poètes américains ď aujourďhui (with a corresponding English volume, 21+1 American Poets Today) and 49+1. In 1989, Hocquard founded and directed "Un bureau sur l'Atlantique", an association fostering relations between French and American poets. Besides poetry, he has written essays, a novel, and translated American and Portuguese poets including Charles Reznikoff, Michael Palmer, Paul Auster, Benjamin Hollander, Antonio Cisneros, and Fernando Pessoa. With the artist Alexandre Delay, he made a video film, Le Voyage à Reykjavik.
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Emmanuel Hocquard is recorded with the occupation translator. Established in Bibliothèque nationale de France under 11907602w. Recorded as linguist, poet, translator, writer and journalist. Established in Library of Congress under n78072504. Recorded at birth as Emmanuel Marie Hocquard. Established in FAST under 27032.
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1940
Emmanuel Hocquard was born on 11 April 1940.
1985
Receives Prix France Culture.
2019
Dies at Mérilheu.
2019
Emmanuel Hocquard died in 2019 at Mérilheu.
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Books in English translation
• A Day in the Strait, translated by Maryann De Julio & Jane Staw, (Red Dust, New York, 1985); "narration" • Late Additions, translated by Rosmarie Waldrop and Connell McGrath, "Serie d'Ecriture Nº 2", (Spectacular Diseases, Peterborough, UK, 1988); poems • Elegies & Other Poems, translated by John A. Scott, (Shearsman Books, Plymouth, UK, 1989); poetry • Aerea in the Forests of Manhattan, translated by Lydia Davis, (The Marlboro Press, Marlboro, Vermont, 1992); novel • Of Mists and Clouds, translated by Mark Hutchinson, (The Noble Rider, Paris). • Elegy 7, translated by Pam Rehm & Keith Waldrop, "Serie d'Ecriture Nº 7", (Burning Deck, Providence (RI), 1993); poetry • Theory of Tables, translated by Michael Palmer, Afterword translation by Norma Cole, (Providence, RI: O-blek editions, 1994); poems • The Garden of Sallust and other writings, translated by Mark Hutchinson, (The Noble Rider, Paris, 1995). • The Library at Trieste, translated by Mark Hutchinson, (The Noble Rider, Paris); a talk given in 1987 at the University of California, San Diego • This Story Is Mine: Little Autobiographical Dictionary of Elegy translated by Norma Cole, (Instress, 1999); poems • Codicil & Plan for Pond 4, translated by Ray DiPalma & Juliette Valéry, (The Post Apollo Press, 1999); poems • A Test of Solitude: Sonnets, translated by Rosmarie Waldrop, (Burning Deck, Providence (RI), 2000); poems • Conditions of Light, translated by Jean-Jacques Poucel, (Fence Books/La Presse, 2010); poems • The Invention of Glass, translated by Cole Swensen and Rod Smith, (Canarium Books, 2012); poems
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Awards and honors
• 2013 Best Translated Book Award, shortlist, The Invention of Glass
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- 1.https://deces.matchid.io/id/BT0kUKQuV06D INSSE, Fichier des décès
- 2.Le poète Emmanuel Hocquard est mort. Le Monde. lire en. 28-01-2019.
- 3.Philippe Charron. L’intention ludique et pratique. Humour et déliaison chez Emmanuel Hocquard. Études françaises. 52. 2016. 127-147.
- 4.Voici la définition qu’en donne Dominique Rabaté : « (…) “Modernité négative” donc qui se signale par un certain nombre de refus que La Bibliothèque de Trieste articule. Au contraire des Poètes (qui revendiquent volontiers la majuscule) qui croient à l’expression d’une “essence poétique transcendante, permanente et universelle”, les poètes “mineurs”, selon Hocquard, recherchent “une poésie sans accent poétique, aussi sèche qu’une biscotte sans beurre”. Anti-lyriques, “le pathos n’est pas leur affaire. Leur propos n’est pas de chanter, de séduire, de s’apitoyer”. Ils cherchent, au contraire, en s’ouvrant à d’autres champs que la littérature, du côté de la philosophie du langage ou de la linguistique, à donner à voir le travail du langage, à le figurer sur la page, selon des découpages ou des tabulations qui sont les ressources propres de l’écriture (…) ». Dominique Rabaté, extrait du Dictionnaire de poésie de Baudelaire à nos jours, sous la direction de Michel Jarrety, Puf, 2001.
- 5.Electronic Poetry Center. buffalo.edu.
- 6.Jean-Michel Maulpoix dans son article : « La poésie française depuis 1950 ( partie) : 1970 : Décanter, déchanter… »
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