{"id":8485260,"date":"2026-02-25T16:33:45","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T16:33:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/villa-albertine.org\/va\/?post_type=app_professional&p=8485260"},"modified":"2026-03-11T15:15:33","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T15:15:33","slug":"author-on-tour-marie-de-quatrebarbes","status":"publish","type":"app_professional","link":"https:\/\/villa-albertine.org\/va\/professionals\/author-on-tour-marie-de-quatrebarbes\/","title":{"rendered":"Author on Tour: Marie de Quatrebarbes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

About Marie de Quatrebarbes<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Marie de Quatrebarbes<\/strong> (b. 1984) is the author of several books of poetry, as well as a novel inspired by the life of Aby Warburg, and the recipient of the 2020 Paul-Verlaine Prize from the Academie Fran\u00e7aise. She published La t\u00eate et les cornes<\/em>, a poetry and translation review, republished the complete poems of Michel Couturier (L\u2019ablatif absolu<\/em>, La t\u00eate et les cornes), and edited an anthology dedicated to contemporary poetry by young French women (Madame tout le monde<\/em>, Le Corridor bleu). The Vitals<\/em> (World Poetry, 2025) is her first book in English translation. Since 2023, she is the co-manager of the French publishing house \u00c9ditions Corti. She lives and works in Paris.<\/p>\n\n\n

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About The Vitals<\/em><\/strong><\/strong> <\/h4>\n\n\n\n

(World Poetry, 2025) <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Acclaimed French poet Marie de Quatrebarbes\u2019 debut in English translation is an elegiac long poem in the form of a fragmentary journal that tracks the loss of a loved one. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

How to unremember the details of grief in order to think, to exist past its consuming intensity? In intricately nested poem-boxes, Marie de Quatrebarbes disorders the sequences of experience to find new possibility in how to write into and of infinite moments within the imposed boundaries of a year. \u201cI form a word for something with my mouth. I disremember myself.\u201d And in that dis-remembering, she discovers subtle tensions between interpretation, explanation and where\/when perception might actually allow for illumination. \u201cMy gaze becomes what it is,\u201d she writes, and Aiden Farrell\u2019s translations keep up, conveying in new language the complexity of life\u2019s increasing accumulation of time. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Vitals<\/em> was released in the United States in May 2025. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Find more information here<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Marie de Quatrebarbes\u2019\u00a0The Vitals<\/em>\u00a0is the recipient of the Albertine Translation Program which celebrates the quality of both original book and its translation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Schedule<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Marie de Quatrebarbes’ public schedule will include:<\/p>\n\n\n\n