A Descriptive Method
By Claude Royet-Journoud
Translated from the French by Keith WaldropA descriptive method from which all conventional indicators have
been withheld? Like a theory of colors in which no colors are shown? Yes—
but then. But then, "from the scriptive" arises a tale, a constellation
of voices and silences as singular and engaging as any other in contemporary
poetry. To read Claude Royet-Journoud is to experience the elements of
telling itself.
—Michael Palmer
...Now Keith Waldrop gives us a beautiful rendering of Une Methode
Descriptive, poetry as dense as it is spare, as concise as it is explosive
—a poetry of the literal made strange.
—Marjorie Perloff
1995 30 pages $10.00 ISBN: 0-942996-23-2
