Leaving the Beach
poems by Ariane Dreyfus
translated
by Elaine Terranova
39 pages, paper, staple-bound
Toad Press, 2025. $6.00
poems by Araine Dreyfus
translations by Elaine Terranova
cover drawing by Ariene Dreyfus, "Partir encore plus loin?"
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Ariane Dreyfus is a French poet, critic, and retired
professor who continues to teach poetry
writing workshops. She was born in 1958. Her work has appeared in most major
literary periodicals and prominent anthologies in France as well as included in
New European Poets, ed. Wayne Miller and Kevin Prufer (Graywolf, 2008).
She has published more than fifteen works, including Le dernier livre des
enfants (Flammarion, 2016), inspired in part by A High Wind in Jamaica,
a novel by Richard Hughes, and its film adaptation by Alexander Mackendrick; Nous
nous attendons and Iris, c’est votre bleu (Poesie/Gallimard, 2023);
and Le double été (Castor Astral, 2024). She has always drawn
inspiration from other arts, particularly the circus, dance, and cinema. Her
poetry is often narrative.
Elaine Terranova has published eight collections of
poetry, most recently Rinse (Grid Books, 2023), two chapbooks, and The
Diamond Cutter’s Daughter: a Poet’s Memoir. Her translation of
Euripides’ Iphigenia at Aulis is part of the Penn Greek Drama
Series. Her poetry and prose have appeared in The New Yorker, APR,
Alaska Quarterly Review, and Hotel Amerika. She has received
the Academy of American Poets First Book Award (formerly the Walt Whitman
Award); fellowships from Pew, the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, and the
National Endowment for the Arts; the 2024 Maurice English Poetry Award; and a
Pushcart Prize.
Ariane Dreyfus is a French poet, critic, and retired
professor who continues to teach poetry
writing workshops. She was born in 1958. Her work has appeared in most major
literary periodicals and prominent anthologies in France as well as included in
New European Poets, ed. Wayne Miller and Kevin Prufer (Graywolf, 2008).
She has published more than fifteen works, including Le dernier livre des
enfants (Flammarion, 2016), inspired in part by A High Wind in Jamaica,
a novel by Richard Hughes, and its film adaptation by Alexander Mackendrick; Nous
nous attendons and Iris, c’est votre bleu (Poesie/Gallimard, 2023);
and Le double été (Castor Astral, 2024). She has always drawn
inspiration from other arts, particularly the circus, dance, and cinema. Her
poetry is often narrative.
Elaine Terranova has published eight collections of
poetry, most recently Rinse (Grid Books, 2023), two chapbooks, and The
Diamond Cutter’s Daughter: a Poet’s Memoir. Her translation of
Euripides’ Iphigenia at Aulis is part of the Penn Greek Drama
Series. Her poetry and prose have appeared in The New Yorker, APR,
Alaska Quarterly Review, and Hotel Amerika. She has received
the Academy of American Poets First Book Award (formerly the Walt Whitman
Award); fellowships from Pew, the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, and the
National Endowment for the Arts; the 2024 Maurice English Poetry Award; and a
Pushcart Prize.
Ariane Dreyfus is a French poet, critic, and retired professor who continues to teach poetry writing workshops. She was born in 1958. Her work has appeared in most major literary periodicals and prominent anthologies in France as well as included in New European Poets, ed. Wayne Miller and Kevin Prufer (Graywolf, 2008). She has published more than fifteen works, including Le dernier livre des enfants (Flammarion, 2016), inspired in part by A High Wind in Jamaica, a novel by Richard Hughes, and its film adaptation by Alexander Mackendrick; Nous nous attendons and Iris, c’est votre bleu (Poesie/Gallimard, 2023); and Le double été (Castor Astral, 2024). She has always drawn inspiration from other arts, particularly the circus, dance, and cinema. Her poetry is often narrative.
Elaine Terranova has published eight collections of poetry, most recently Rinse (Grid Books, 2023), two chapbooks, and The Diamond Cutter’s Daughter: a Poet’s Memoir. Her translation of Euripides’ Iphigenia at Aulis is part of the Penn Greek Drama Series. Her poetry and prose have appeared in The New Yorker, APR, Alaska Quarterly Review, and Hotel Amerika. She has received the Academy of American Poets First Book Award (formerly the Walt Whitman Award); fellowships from Pew, the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, and the National Endowment for the Arts; the 2024 Maurice English Poetry Award; and a Pushcart Prize.
