Jacques Roubaud Biography

In Paris the LARKS are singing EDITH-PIAF is singing, the birds
The EGRETS are singing, the BUNTINGS are singing
In the LOCUST TREES, the CORNFLOWERS, the GOOD-SEEDS,
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A poetic form: the quenine of p


The quenine of p (where p is a rational number) is a generalisation of the quenine, a form invented by Raymond Queneau, who generalised the sestina of troubadour Arnaut Daniel.
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To François Caradec

I am, in Paris, a walker of the dead streets
Of the streets that are no longer, of streets renamed,
Erased, done in, truncated, diminished,
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I knew him, you see, infinite jester,
rich with the most astonishing derisions.
Thousands of times he carried me on his back
Laughing laughter from his ten times red lips.
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when by chance I come upon
the towers of Notre-Dame
unlike Tristan Derème
who
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