Guy Bennett

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Guy Bennett is a writer and translator. Founder of Mindmade Books (1997–2017), co-editor of every other and editorial director of Otis Books, he lives in Los Angeles and teaches in the MFA Writing program at Otis College of Art and Design.

Honors[]

Named Chevalier de l'Ordre des palmes académiques by the French Ministry of National Education in April 2005.

Selected publications[]

• Remerciements. (Co-translated with Frank Smith) Bordeaux: Éditions de l'Attente, 2021.
• Wiersze zrozumiałe same przez się. (Translation of Self-Evident Poems by Aleksandra Małecka) Kraków: Korporacja HA!ART, 2021.
• Post-Self-Evident-Poems. Digital edition published by Jonas Pelzer, 2020.
• Œuvres presque accomplies. (Co-translated with Frédéric Forte) Bordeaux: Éditions de l'Attente, 2018.
• Ce livre. (Co-translated with Frédéric Forte) Bordeaux: Éditions de l'Attente, 2017.
• Poèmes évidents. (Translation of Self-Evident Poems by the author and Frédéric Forte) Bordeaux: Éditions de l'Attente, 2015.
• View Source. London: vErIsImIlItUdE, 2015.
• Self-Evident Poems. Los Angeles: Otis Books | Seismicity Editions, 2011.
• 32 Snapshots of Marseilles. Corvallis, OR: Sacrifice Press, 2010.
• Drive to Cluster. In collaboration with painter Ron Griffin. Piacenza: ML & NLF, 2003.
• The Row. Los Angeles: Seeing Eye Books, 2000.
• Last Words. Los Angeles: Sun & Moon Press, 1998.

Selected translations[]

• Nissabouri, Mostafa. For An Ineffable Metrics of the Desert. Los Angeles: Otis Books, 2018. [With Pierre Joris, Addie Leak, and Teresa Villa-Ignacio]
• Sandri, Giovanna. only fragments found: selected poems, 1969–1996. Los Angeles: Otis Books, 2016. [With Faust Paoluzzi and the author]
• Dib, Mohammed. Tlemcen or Places of Writing. Los Angeles: Otis Books / Seismicity Editions, 2012.
• Spatola, Adriano. Toward Total Poetry. Los Angeles: Otis Books / Seismicity Editions, 2008. [with Brendan W. Hennessey]
• Roubaud, Jacques. Poetry, etc. Cleaning House. Los Angeles: Green Integer, 2006.
• Khaïr-Eddine, Mohammed. Damaged Fauna. Los Angeles, Seeing Eye Books, 2006.
• Espitallier, Jean-Michel. Espitallier’s Theorem. Los Angeles: Seismicity Editions, 2005.
• Novarina, Valère. Adramelech’s Monologue. Los Angeles: Seeing Eye Books, 2004.
• Brossard, Nicole. Shadow / Soft et Soif. Los Angeles, Seeing Eye Books, 2003. Selections published in Drunken Boat 8 (2006).

Interviews[]

• "LA-Lit Interviews Guy Bennett," by Stephanie Rioux and Mathew Timmons. (February 2006)
• "Entrevue avec le poète américain Guy Bennett réalisée par Hassan El Ouazzani." art Le Sabord 70 (2005): 44–51.
• "Paris / Morocco / L.A.: Poet, translator, and publisher Guy Bennett talks (with Leonard Schwartz) about his poetry, his publishing venture Seeing Eye Books, and his translations of Valère Novarina and Mostafa Nissabouri."
• "Difficult Fruits and Paraphrase: Guy Bennett talks to Andrew Maxwell about translation and constraint." Double Change II (2002).

External links[]

• Guy Bennett’s website
• Guy Bennett’s playlist for webSYNradio