Overyellow, an Installation

This is a book about a color-the vivid, explosive yellow of the English broom that blooms outrageously, uproariously, all over the mountain that dominates the view from Nicolas Pesquès' window. In this loping long poem, Pesquès views this color as installation art-as if the word YELLOW were written in enormous letters covering the hillside. It's an installation that brings issues of language to the fore, offering an occasion for the writer to juggle the immediate presence of color with the more mitigated presence created by language.

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Nicolas Pesquès was born in France in 1946, and has been publishing poetry since 1971. His most recent books include Trois poèmes (Three Poems) from Edition du Limon, 1995, and La face nord de Juliau un, deux, trois, and quatre (The North Face of Juliau One, Two, Three, and Four), all published by André Dimanche Editeur in 1988, 1997, and 2000. | In addition to her award-winning work as a poet, Cole Swensen has translated numerous collections by French poets, including Island of the Dead by Jean Frémon, for which she received the PEN Literary Award for Translation in 2004. A 2006 Guggenheim Fellow, she teaches at the Iowa Writers' Workshop.