Chris Clarke
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Amateur linguistic taxidermist. Literary translator: Queneau, Modiano, Mac Orlan, Schwob, Caradec, Girod, Cortázar... All statements are my own.
Connecticut
Joined July 2017
Year of Films #33: 17 Aug 2025. Meurtre en 45 tours, aka Murder at 45 RPM, dir. Etienne Périer (1960). With Danielle Darrieux, Michel Auclair & Jean Servais. From "À coeur perdu" by Boileau & Narcejac. An unfaithful wife is haunted via records by her deceased musician husband.
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Year of Films #32: 10 Aug 2025. Cape Fear, dir. J. Lee Thompson (1962). With Gregory Peck, Robert Mitchum, Polly Bergen, Lori Martin, & Telly Savalas. From the novel by John D. MacDonald. Just days after we visited Cape Fear, although our experience wasn't nearly so suspenseful.
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Hello translators! Send us your best translated poems in need of a home, we're soon to get started reading for our next issue. Accepting submissions through the end of August. We look forward to reading you!.
World Poetry Review is open for submissions, Aug. 1st–Aug. 31st, for our upcoming issue. Translators of poetry are encouraged to apply! .Check out our submission guidelines to learn more about what we're looking for: ..#translation #poetry #poem #poems
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Year of Films #31: 3 Aug 2025. Un Carnet de Bal, dir. Julien Duvivier (1937). With Marie Bell, Louis Jouvet, Harry Baur, Raimu & Fernandel. Early French sketch film, each sketch penned by a different writer. Much contrast in characters, more dark moments than light but charming.
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Hey bookfriends. If you, like us, order books etc. from overseas, something to look into before ordering. "Goods shipped through the postal system will face 1 of 2 tariffs: value duty or, for 6 mo., a tariff of $80 US to $200 US depending on the country of origin's tariff rate.
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Going through some old boxes of misc as I organize my new home office in North Carolina, and I came across a big stack of old concert ticket stubs from when that was still a thing. Here are a few that caught my attention as “key shows” for me coming up:
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Just came across this timeless pic. Here I am reaching for a glass of water in the desert, circa 1994.
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RT @worldpoetryrev: Over the next few weeks we'll be sharing excerpts from translations of “J’ai tant rêvé de toi” by Robert Desnos, featur….
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RT @worldpoetryrev: Excerpts from translations by Guy Bennett, Dawson Ford Campbell, and Mary Ann Caws of Robert Desnos' “J’ai tant rêvé de….
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RT @worldpoetryrev: Excerpts from translations by Chris Clarke, Kate Deimling, and Alexander Dickow of Robert Desnos' "J’AI TANT RÊVÉ DE TO….
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RT @worldpoetryrev: From translations by Heather Green, C. Francis Fisher, Charlotte Mandell @avecsesdoigts, and Laura Marris @lauramarris….
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RT @worldpoetryrev: Excerpts from translations by Ian Monk, Erin Moure, Mark Polizzotti, and Damion Searls of Robert Desnos' "J’AI TANT RÊV….
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Year of Films #30: 27 July 2025. The League of Gentlemen, dir. Basil Dearden (1960). With Jack Hawkins, Nigel Patrick, Roger Livesay & Richard Attenborough. From a novel by John Boland. A fun & light bank job movie featuring eight shady ex British servicemen. Lots of trumpets.
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Fine mistranslation or cheeky poster? According to the French owner of this café-bar in Trois-Îlets, it means “travail manuel, fait à la main.” Which I guess is still true, even if it means different things to the both of us.
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We spent several days recently in Basse Terre, Guadeloupe and Saint-Pierre, Martinique, built in the shadows of the Soufrière and Mont Pelée volcanoes. This evening we rewatched Werner Herzog's 1977 documentary La Soufrière. Hits much harder now that we've seen these communities.
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