About the Author

Paol Keineg (born in 1944 in Brittany) is the author of about 20 books of poetry and plays. He was fired from his first teaching job for his separatist Breton activism. In the mid 1970s he moved to California where he first worked as a welder. Then went to graduate school at Brown University (PhD 1981) and taught French and literature at Dartmouth, Brown, and Duke Universities. In 2009 he returned to his native Brittany. He is the father of the singer Katell Keineg. Rosmarie Waldrop's recent books of poetry include Driven to Abstraction, Curves to the Apple, Blindsight (New Directions), and Love, Like Pronouns (Omnidawn). Her novels, The Hanky of Pippin's Daughter and A Form/of Taking/It All, are available from Northwestern UP, her collected essays, Dissonance (if you are interested), from University of Alabama Press, the memoir, Lavish Absence: Recalling and Rereading Edmond Jabès, from Wesleyan UP. She translates German and French poetry (Elke Erb, Friederike Mayröcker, Edmond Jabès, Jacques Roubaud) and co-edits Burning Deck books with Keith Waldrop, in Providence, RI.