Virginie Lalucq

VIRGINIE LALUCQ was born May 8, 1975 in Paris. She is the author of Couper les tiges (Act Mem/ Comp'act, 2001) and Fortino Samano (with Jean-Luc-Nancy, Galilee 2004). Her poetry was included in the anthology Autres territoires, edited by Henri Deluy (Ferrago/Leo Scheer, 2003), and has been published in numerous journals, most notably Action poetique, Action restreinte, L'Animal, Les cahiers de Benjy, Issue, Java, Nioques, Les Lettres francaises, and La revue des resources. She is a founding...See more

VIRGINIE LALUCQ was born May 8, 1975 in Paris. She is the author of Couper les tiges (Act Mem/ Comp'act, 2001) and Fortino Samano (with Jean-Luc-Nancy, Galilee 2004). Her poetry was included in the anthology Autres territoires, edited by Henri Deluy (Ferrago/Leo Scheer, 2003), and has been published in numerous journals, most notably Action poetique, Action restreinte, L'Animal, Les cahiers de Benjy, Issue, Java, Nioques, Les Lettres francaises, and La revue des resources. She is a founding member of the editorial collective for the journal Nioques. The Center for the Study of Poetry (ENS) in Lyons describes Lalucq's poetry thus: A certain desire to experiment characterizes her work, a desire that translates most clearly in the number of collaborative performance and writing projects in which she has engaged, and the diversity of the source materials on which she draws in her poetry. Lalucq has given numerous readings and lectures, and participates regularly in print journal and blog discussions. She is a librarian at the National Foundation of the Political Sciences, and lives with her husband and son in a quiet and unusually woodsy quarter of Paris. JEAN-LUC NANCY was born on July 26, 1940 in Cauderan (Gironde, France). He trained in philosophy and biology at the Sorbonne and the Institute of Philosophy in Strasbourg. In 1973, he completed his Doctorate (directed by Paul Ricoeur), and in 1987, he received his Ph.D. summa cum laude (Jacques Derrida and Jean-Francois Lyotard both served on his doctoral jury). From 1988- 1998, Nancy was Professor of Philosophy at the Universite Marc Bloch (University of Strasbourg), where he was awarded a Distinguished Professor in 1998, which he held until his retirement in 2002. Nancy has been a Distinguished Visiting Professor around the world, at the Universities of Berlin, California (Berkeley, Irvine, and San Diego), and Australia/Melbourne, among others. In 2002, Nancy was awarded the "Liberty" Prize by the International Center for Peace in Sarajevo, and in 2005, he was made a Knight of the Legion of Honor in France. He is the author of many books, among the most recent of which, Au fond des images (Galilee 2003), was a great influence on Virginie Lalucq as she wrote Fortino Samano, which was translated into English as The Ground of the Image (Fordham UP, 2005). Nancy and his wife, who have three children, live in Strasbourg. CYNTHIA HOGUE was born on August 26, 1951 in the Midwest, and raised in the Adirondack Mountains of upstate New York. As an undergraduate, she studied the art of literary translation, taking classes at Oberlin College in which she worked from trots (translating classical Japanese poetry in combination with the study of Ezra Pound's translation work), as well as taking courses in German and French literature. At the time, although fluent in French, she was drawn to the German poetry that she studied with her advisor, the poet and translator Stuart Friebert. After a junior year in Denmark and a Fulbright-Hayes Fellowship to Iceland (1978- 1979), however, during which time she became fluent in both Scandinavian languages, she remained in Iceland for three years in all, translating poetry from both countries. After the tragic suicide of her Danish collaborative translator, however, she returned to the States, pursued a Ph.D. in English, and set translation work aside for twenty-five years. She took it back up after being invited to develop a course on literary translation for the MFA program at Arizona State University. The class was a great success, but she felt like a fake teaching the art but not practicing it any longer. By 2008, however, she was spending each summer in France (having by then married Sylvain... See less