Codicil & Plan for Pond 4

Poetry. Translated from the French by Ray Di Palma and Juliette Valéry. "Emmanuel Hocquard, whether in fiction (Aerea in the Forests of Manhattan) or poetry (Theory of Tables) , has always shied from the notion that what one says must really say something else and writes 'directly from the circumstance.' The elegance and authority of his work comes from a perfect union of perception and grammar." - Keith Waldrop