LA PRESSE BOOKS

Founder and editor of this small press, which published contemporary French poetry and creative prose translated by English-language writers. It was an imprint of Fence Books, and published two titles a year.

Sleep preceded by Saying Poetry by Jacques Roubaud, trans. Matthew B. Smith, 2018

Joan Darc by Nathalie Quintane, trans. Cynthia Hogue & Sylvain Gallais, 2018

See About by Sebastien Smirou, trans. Andrew Zawacki, 2017

Proustiennes by Jean Frémon. trans. Brian Evenson, 2016

Monosapce by Anne Parian, trans. Emma Ramadan, 2015

To the Secret by Franck André Jamme, trans. Norma Cole, 2015

Seven String Quartets by Frédéric Forte, trans. Matthew B. Smith, 2014

The L Notebook by Sabine Macher; trans. Eleni Sikelianos, 2014

Present Participle by Oscarine Bosquet; trans. S. Riggs & E. LeBlond-Schrader, 2013

Night and Day by Pierre Alferi; trans. Kate Campbell, 2012

Flirt Formula by Anne Portugal; trans. Jean-Jacques Poucel, 2012

The Woman with Several Lives by Jean Daive; trans. Norma Cole, 2012

The Whole of Poetry is Preposition by Claude Royet-Journoud; trans. K. Waldrop, 2011

Conditions of Light by Emmanuel Hocquard; trans. Jean-Jacques Poucel, 2010

Exchanges on Light by Jacques Roubaud; translated by Eleni Sikelianos, 2009

It by Dominique Fourcade; translated by Peter Consenstein, 2009

Heliotropes by Ryoko Sekiguchi; translated by Sarah O’Brien, 2008

Theory of Prepositions by Claude Royet-Journoud; trans. Keith Waldrop, 2006

Wolftrot, by Marie Borel; trans. Sarah Riggs and Omar Berrada, 2006