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LONGLISTED for the 2020 NATIONAL TRANSLATION AWARD IN POETRY FINALIST for the BEST TRANSLATED BOOK AWARD In Stephane Bouquet's The Next Loves, French poetic tradition meets the New York School poets in a unique take on homosexuality, desire, loneliness, and love in an era of global inequality and fundamental precarity. Bouquet's work delicately carves out space for passages from I to you to the collective we.

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This brilliant collection unites technologies ancient and new-cruising, Facebook, Grindr, the sonnet-to make poems of indefatigable sweetness, freshness, and insight. Stephane Bouquet writes like the angelic offspring of Frank O'Hara and Sandra Penna, and some of his poems, like the breathtaking `Light of the Fig,' have already installed themselves among my canon of astonishments. - Garth Greenwell

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Stephane Bouquet is the author of several collections of poems and-most recently-a book of essays on poems, La Cite de paroles (2018). He has published books on filmmakers such as Sergei Eisenstein and Gus Van Sant, as well as screenplays for feature films, non-fiction films, and short films, and has translated poets including Paul Blackburn, James Schuyler, and Peter Gizzi into French. He's also interested in performance arts and has given workshops for choreographers at the Centre National de la danse in Paris and for actors and stage directors at La Manufacture in Lausanne, Switzerland. Bouquet is a recipient of a 2003 Prix de Rome and a 2007 Mission Stendhal Award, and has been featured in France and internationally at festivals, residencies, and events, including the 2017 Frankfurt Book Fair and the 2018 Toronto Festival of Authors. He holds an M.A. in economics from Universite Pantheon-Sorbonne. Lindsay Turner is the author of Songs & Ballads (Prelude Books, 2018). Her translations from the French include adagio ma non troppo, by Ryoko Sekiguchi (Les Figues Press, 2018) and The Next Loves, by Stephane Bouquet (forthcoming, Nightboat Books), as well as a book of philosophy by Frederic Neyrat, Atopias (co-translated with Walt Hunter, Fordham University Press, 2017). She is the recipient of a 2017 French Voices Grant for her translation of Stephane Bouquet's Vie Commune (currently seeking an American publisher). Originally from northeast Tennessee, she holds an A.B. from Harvard College, a Masters in cinema from the Universite Paris III Sorbonne-Nouvelle, an M.F.A. in poetry from New York University, and a Ph.D. in English from the University of Virginia. In 2018-19, she is a Visiting Assistant Professor of English and Creative Writing at Furman University in Greenville, South Carolina.

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