A Tibetan Grammar (D'ecriture, 29) - Softcover

Vilgrain, Benedicte

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1936194228 ISBN 13: 9781936194223

Publisher: Burning Deck, 2016

Synopsis

Poetry. Translated from the French by Keith Waldrop. "A TIBETAN GRAMMAR explores language from an almost architectural perspective, using the structure of Tibetan to examine how a language creates categories—and then immediately overflows them. In the attempt to construct a concise map, she deftly demonstrates the inability of language to remain sufficiently static for any cartographical system. Her balance of analytic query, sharp imagery, and radical juxtaposition creates a varied and vivid surface that gives the reader an uncanny sense of experiencing the familiar through foreign means."—Cole Swensen

About this title

About the Author:

Bénédicte Vilgrain, born in Lille in 1959, translates from German, English, and Tibetan into French. She also founded and directs Théâtre Typographique with Bernard Rival. Based just outside of Paris, the press has published collections of oral literature from Asia and Africa as well as contemporary French and American poets.

About this edition

• Publisher: Burning Deck
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1936194228
• ISBN 13: 9781936194223
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 80