A Roll of the Dice

Co-op available Galleys available. We'll be sending copies to major media outlets since Mallarmé is such an important figure in poetry and as a art object, the book has a broader appeal. Venues that we plan to follow up with include The New Yorker, Bookforum, the Boston Review, The Paris Review, and Harper's. Review copy mailing to translation specific venues, such as Words Without Borders, Two Lines, Open Letter, Circumference, Loaded Bicycle, and Asymptote. Newsletter and announcement mailings to our mailing list of 3,000 people. We have over 14,000 Twitter followers and 3,800 Facebook followers, to whom we will promote the book.

A contemporary and authentically designed translation of one of Stephane Mallarme's most famous poems.A translation by Robert Bononno and designer Jeff Clark of one of Stephane Mallarme's most well-known and visually complex poems into contemporary English language and design. The book is composed in an elaborate set of type and photography to both honor the original and be an object of delight. Includes the original preface by Mallarme. Bilingual edition. Stephane Mallarme (1842--98) was born in Paris and is widely regarded as one of the most important figures of nineteenth-century French poetry. Jeff Clark's book designs have been praised in the New Yorker, Better Living Through Design, Cool Hunting, Granta, and other venues. He is a graduate of the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop. Robert Bononno has received two NEA grants for translations of French authors and was a finalist for the French-American Foundation Translation Prize for his translation of Rene Crevel.