Beverley Bie Brahic



Beverley Bie Brahic is a poet and translator. Born in Canada, she lives in Stanford, California and Paris, France. She has published two poetry collections, White Sheets, a Poetry Book Society Recommendation and finalist for the 2012 Forward Prize, and Against Gravity, and a number of translations from French, including selections of poems by Guillaume Apollinaire and Francis Ponge (Unfinished Ode to Mud, 2008, a finalist for the 2009 Popescu Prize for Poetry in Translation, and books by Hélène Cixous, including Portrait of Jacques Derrida as a Young Jewish Saint (2004, Columbia University Press).

Poetry
[http://www.cbeditions.com/ Beverley Bie Brahic. White Sheets. (CBeditions, 2012).]

[http://www.fitzhenry.ca/detail.aspx?ID=10470/ Beverley Bie Brahic. White Sheets. (Fitzhenry & Whiteside, 2012).]

[http://www.worplepress.com/ Beverley Bie Brahic. Against Gravity. (Worple Press, 2005)]

Translations
[http://www.cbeditions.com/ Guillaume Apollinaire. The Little Auto. (CBeditions, 2012).]

[http://www.cbeditions.com/ Francis Ponge. Unfinished Ode to Mud. (CBeditions, 2008). Finalist for the Popescu Prize for Poetry Translation 2009.]

[http://cup.columbia.edu/book/978-0-231-13978-6/geneses-genealogies-genres-and-genius Jacques Derrida. Geneses, Genealogies, Genre and Genius (Columbia and Edinburgh University Presses, 2006)].

[http://cup.columbia.edu/book/978-0-231-14784-2/this-incredible-need-to-believe Kristeva, Julia. This Incredible Need to Believe (Columbia University Press, 2009)]. Finalist for the French American Foundation Translation Award 2010.

[http://cup.columbia.edu/book/978-0-231-12824-7/portrait-of-jacques-derrida-as-a-young-jewish-saint Hélène Cixous. Portrait of Jacques Derrida as a Young Jewish Saint (Columbia University Press, 2004)].

—. Reveries of the Wild Woman (Northwestern University Press, 2006).

—. The Day I Wasn't There (Northwestern University Press, 2006).

—. Dream I Tell You (Columbia and Edinburgh University Presses, 2006).

— and Roni Horn. Agua Viva (Rings of Lispector) (Steidl Verlag, 2006)

--. [http://www.fordhampress.com/detail.html?id=9780823227761 —. Manhattan  (Fordham University Press, 2007)].

—. "Hyperdream'' (Polity Press, 2009). Nominated for the Impac Dublin Prize 2011.

—. "Hemlock'' (Polity Press, 2011).

Other
the eye goes after (limited edition artist’s book of digital images by Susan Cantrick accompanying 20 poems by Beverley Bie Brahic, Paris, 2007)

“Fractals” was set to music for violin and narration by Marcel Dortort, and inaugurated at The Rumanian Cultural Centre in Paris in 2008 as “If.”