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Traffic and Weather
Marcella Durand
Fall/Winter 2008/09
Paperback Poetry/Prose
ISBN-13: 978-0-97-16800-9-8
72 Pages, 6 X 8
$15.00 U.S.
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“Traffic and weather hold all that we know about multipleness in
their loose, but insistent embrace. This multiple, seething, singing confluence
rises up out of the city of life to join the enigmatic sky and clouds
in Marcella Durand’s magnificent, brutal, delicate epic. It’s
a stunning achievement.”
—John Ashbery
“In the poetic accumulation of Traffic & Weather, Marcella Durand
creatively describes the city as a neo-Roman enclave before darkness sets
in.”
—Will Alexander
“What is the nature of the places we inhabit? And how are they none
other than ourselves? This book explores these questions in a single intricate
text that presents the city as an organism, often breaking down and always
vibrant, set amid a landscape that is equally problematic and thriving.
From a wet footprint on a paper bag to “the mechanics of light when
splintered by construction,” Durand touches the pulse-points and
brings all that life to the page.”
—Cole Swensen
Marcella Durand’s other books include Area
(Belladonna), The Anatomy of Oil (Belladonna), Western Capital
Rhapsodies (Faux), City of Ports, and Lapsus Linguae
(both from Situations). Her poems, essays and translations have appeared
in The Nation, Conjunctions, Denver Quarterly,
Verse, NYFA Current, Chain, Ecopoetics,
The Poker, and other journals and anthologies. She is a former
editor of The Poetry Project Newsletter and a member of the Double
Change Collective. For the past few years, she has been working on
a book-length translation of Michèle Métail’s Les
horizons du sol/Earth’s Horizons, a history of the geological
formation of Marseille written within an Oulipian formal constraint. From
2005 to 2006, she was a writer in residence at the Lower Manhattan Cultural
Council. She lives in New York City with her husband Richard O’Russa
and son Ismael Toussaint Durand O’Russa.
Marcella's Blog - Translation Workshop.com
Marcella Durand's Lower Manhattan Community Council Residency Interview Page