Two Poems

Anne-Marie Albiach is one of France's leading avant-garde poets. Although much of her work has been translated and published in the USA, little has so far been made available in Britain. This chapbook unites two texts from very early and very recently in her career: Flammigere was her first book, a long poem published as a limited edition by Siecle a Mains in 1967 in London, where she was then living; La ligne ...la perte appeared in 1999 in a festschrift volume dedicated to fellow poet Claude Royet-Journoud but has recently been collected in her latest (2004) book in France. This poem shows interesting parallels to the much earlier work. Flammigere has never been collected in any of Ms. Albiach's French volumes and she has always declined permission for its republication. She has however permitted an Italian translation and, now, an English translation.