Bénédicte Gorrillot

'In the Air of Towering Beeches'

Pascal Quignard's INTER.

That title is my favourite of the three translations I made of the title of Pascal Quignard’s poem Inter Aerias FagosAmong Aerial Beeches, or In the Canopy of Beeches — republished in 2011 in the beautiful volume INTER, and slipped to me recently by poet Chantal Neveu. “You should write about this,” she said.

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