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Oct.12.2012 White Sheets Published by Times Literary Supplement In a relatively short career, Beverley Bie Brahic has already achieved critical acclaim as poet, translator and, at times, translator-poet. White Sheets, her second collection of... Continue Reading »	Oct.01.2012 White Sheets Published by Poetry London "Brahic is at her strongest in 'Ancient History'. This contemplation of the ephemeral nature of time avoids all manner of clichés, as she mixes the death of her father with a... Continue Reading »
Sep.11.2012 White Sheets Published by The Common In addition to poetic shape-shifting, subtle confrontations often lurk deceptively behind the ordinary. The title poem “White Sheets” opens Brahic’s collection, and its... Continue Reading »	Francis Ponge: Unfinished Ode to Mud (Finalist for the Popescu Prize for European Poetry in Translation 2009) Published by Poetry London ‘The directness and simplicity of Brahic’s translation are refreshing, and to finally see such previously untranslated works as the titular ode is a great thing indeed’ – Luke... Continue Reading »
Dec.24.2004 Portrait of Jacques Derrida as a Young Jewish Saint, by Helene Cixous (translation) Published by The Times Literary Supplement From The Times Literary Supplement December 24, 2004 Being Derrida Josh Cohen PORTRAIT OF JACQUES DERRIDA AS A YOUNG JEWISH SAINT. Helene Cixous. Translated from the French by... Continue Reading »	May.13.2009 Francis Ponge: Unfinished Ode to Mud (Finalist for the Popescu Prize for European Poetry in Translation 2009) Published by The Times Literary Supplement ‘Beverley Bie Brahic’s translation is wholly in keeping with Ponge’s own premiss . . . that he should “never sacrifice the object of [his] study in order to enhance some verbal... Continue Reading »
Jan.15.2009 Francis Ponge: Unfinished Ode to Mud (Finalist for the Popescu Prize for European Poetry in Translation 2009) Published by www. readysteadybook.com "The French master, Francis Ponge -- difficult to translate, as I know well -- speaks his things and their words in a collection of impressive versions by Beverley Bie Brahic: '... Continue Reading »	Francis Ponge: Unfinished Ode to Mud (Finalist for the Popescu Prize for European Poetry in Translation 2009) Published by georgiasam There’s nothing like the whiff of a new book by Francis Pong (as a student of mine pronounced him once) to get the lexicographical juices flowing. CB Editions (website here) have... Continue Reading »
Published by Review of work in the area of deconstruction published in 2004. “The translator, Beverley Bie Brahic, herself a poet, displays here an extraordinary gift for conveying the redistributions and explosions of sense that Cixous practises in this... Continue Reading »	Aug.18.2006 Dream I Tell You, by Helene Cixous (translation) Published by The Times Literary Supplement “The quality of the translator’s work, the agile and elegant expressions she puts forth, mean that this triad of recent Cixous texts, appearing for the first time in English, is a... Continue Reading »

About beverley

BEVERLEY BIE BRAHIC was born in Canada, and lives in Paris and Stanford, California. A translator and poet, her work has appeared in Field, Literary Imagination, Notre Dame Review, Oxford Poetry, PN Review, Poetry, The Times Literary Supplement, and...

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