Angela Carr
Biography
Angela Carr is the author of Ropewalk (Snare Books, 2006). Her recent project is a translation of the concordance to the Roman de la Rose of Guillaume de Lorris. Selections from this work will be published in the Capilano Review and in dANDelion’s “radical translation” issue this fall. She lives and works in Montreal.
Poet's Note
The project of translating an index to an epic allegorical poem. Repetition of keywords unfolding an emotional register — emotion shifted from line breaks to keyword repetition. The questions: to what poem is this a concordance, what is the original narrative? Very early on in the process, the concordance to the Roman de la Rose appears to the translator as a mist of artistic concerns. She loves its bawdy surface. Then the concordance is abandoned (the writer cannot access the library holding that book; the book is literally withheld) and imagined by the poet, indexing many possible original narratives.
Sample Writing
"of running, of the core" (pdf)
External Links
"At This Point," a soundwork by Michèle Anderson using a reading by Carr as its source (copyright Michèle Anderson and Angela Carr 2007)