Codicil & Plan for Pond 4

Poetry. Translated from the French by Ray Di Palma and Juliette Valéry. “Emmanuel Hocquard, whether in fiction ( Aerea in the Forests of Manhattan ) or poetry ( Theory of Tables ), has always shied from the notion that what one says must really say something else and writes ‘directly from the circumstance.’ The elegance and authority of his work comes from a perfect union of perception and grammar.”—Keith Waldrop