About the Author

EMMANUEL MOSES, who lives in Paris, is the author of twelve books of poems and several novels. MARILYN HACKER, who published an earlier collection of Moses’ work, He and I (Oberlin, 2009), received the 2009 PEN Award for Poetry in Translation and the 2010

Reviews

"One of the most singular lyric voices to emerge in France in the last quarter century, Emmanuel Moses is well served by veteran American poet-translator Marilyn Hacker, whose translations from the poet's three latest collections have a way of casting their own spell. Moses can be elegiac, disarmingly personal, celebratory, and, notably in his remarkable cycles of preludes and fugues, mysterious and elliptical--evoking a tremulous, lost kingdom in beautifully cadenced, organ-toned free verse lines. In Preludes and Fugues we witness the poet amidst the roses, and the ashes, of the 'impassable threshold.'"--Gabriel Levin