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Fall 2011 • Vol. XXXIII No. 4 • Poetry |

From What Does and What Doesn’t Come to Pass

By Jean Portante, translated by Zoë Skoulding

From the French.

 

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Jean Portante, born in Luxembourg and living in Paris, is a poet, novelist, playwright, translator, and member of the Acadmie Mallarmé. His recent collection is La réinvention de l’oubli (Editions Le Castor Astral, 2010).
Zoë Skoulding’s most recent collection of poems is Remains of a Future City (Seven, 2008). She lectures in the School of English at Bangor University and is editor of the international quarterly Poetry Wales.

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