The Flirt Formula (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781934200537)

Anne Portugal's first collection, La licence qu'on appelle autrement parrh駸ie, was published in the collective Cahier de po駸ie 3 by ﾉditions Gallimard in 1980. Since then she has published several texts with the well-known publisher of the experimental, P.O.L., including Les commodit駸 d'une banquette (1985), De quoi faire un mur (1987), Le plus simple appareil (1992), translated into English by Norma Cole and published under the title Nude by Kelsey St. Press in 2001, Dans la reproduction en deux parties 馮ales des plantes et des animaux (1999) and d馭initif bob (2002), which was translated by Jennifer Moxley and published under the title absolute bob by Burning Deck Press. Burning Deck has also published a chapbook, Quisit Moment (2008), translated by Rosmarie Waldrop. Portugal is a prodigious traveler has represented France in numerous international conferences and festivals, such as those in China, Norway, Poland, the United States, and Korea. Born in Angers, France in 1949, she lives and teaches in Paris.

Jean-Jacques Poucel is a scholar of French poetry and comparative poetics. His first critical book, Jacques Roubaud and the Invention of Memory was published by the University of North Carolina Press in 2006; he has also published poems (in READ, 2007, 2008, 2010), and co-edited two collections of critical essays, Pereckonings: Reading Georges Perec (Yale French Studies, 105) and Constraint Writing I & II (Poetics Today, 30.4 [2009] & 31.1 [2010]). He co-coordinates the Whitney Humanity Center's "Working Group in Contemporary Poetics" at Yale University, serves as a contributing editor for Drunken Boat, and is a member of Double Change, an international collective working with French and American poetry and its dissemination through translation and public readings. He has also translated prose and poetry by Sabine Macher, Jacques Roubaud, Jean-Michel Espitalier, S饕astien Smirou, Rob Halpern, and Nancy Kuhl. His translation of Emmanuel Hocquard's book Conditions of Light was published by La Presse in 2010.