Translations

Published Translations

All translations are from the French, unless otherwise noted.

• A Dream, by Xavier Forneret. Translator & Editor. 16 pp., (printed on recto only) mOnocle-Lash, Nov. 2024.
  
• Cervantes in Madrid, and Other Texts, by Alphonse Brot. Editor, Translator, & Critical Biographer. 32 pp., mOnocle-Lash, Nov. 2024.
  
• The Phalanxes of Babel: Selected Texts from an Outlaw of Thought, 1828-1844, by Philothée O’Neddy. Editor, Critical Biographer, & Co-Translator w/Jonah Durning-Hammond. 48 pp., mOnocle-Lash, July 2024.
• Proverb, edited by Paul Eluard. 6 pp. Brief texts by Eluard, Jean Paulhan, Francis Picabia, Théodore Fraenkel, Louis Aragon, Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes, Isadora Duncan, Paul Dermée, Jean Cocteau, Tristan Tzara, Jacques-Émile Blanche, Philippe Soupault, & Walter Serner. Translator & Introduction. mOnocle-Lash, July 2024.
• The Magistrate’s Douche Ascendant: Three Splenetic Sonnets, by Laurent Tailhade. 3 pp. Translation of three sonnets. mOnocle-Lash, July 2024.
• Paradise Rediscovered: Poem from the Source, by Léocadie Penquer. mOnocle-Lash, March 2024. Pamphlet.
• Choice Morsels from the Bouzingos: An Avant-Romanticist Sampler of Horror, Transgression, and Cultural Anarchy. Editor & Primary Translator. Ten translations of Pétrus Borel, Philothée O'Neddy, Alphonse Esquiros, Théophile Gautier, Augustus Mac-Keat, Alphonse Brot, & Gérard de Nerval, and Historico-Critical Introduction & Textual Apparatus. mOnocle-Lash, March 2024.
  
• Rêvenance 10. Translations of Pétrus Borel, Arthur Rimbaud, Abdullah Cevdet, Mélanie Waldor, Francis Vielé-Griffin, Germaine Albert-Birot, & Alfred de Musset. mOnocle-Lash, Oct. 2023.
  
• Otoliths #69. print & online versions, ed. Mark Young. Translation of Chapter 2 of Screwdrive by Céline Arnaud. April 2023. 
  
• Otoliths #68. print & online versions, ed. Mark Young. Three translations: "696666...6 9..." by Guillaume Apollinaire,  "Synthetic Criticism" by Pierre Reverdy, & Chapter 1 of Screwdrive by Céline Arnaud. Feb. 2023.
• Lycanthropy: Some Shreds Torn from 'Rhapsodies', by Petrus Borel. 2nd Edition Expanded & Revised. Editor, Critical Biography, & Co-Translator w/Raymond E. André III, & John Robertson. 47 pp, mOnocle-Lash. Dec. 2022. (1st Ed: Aug. 2014).
• Rearward Enigma: Three Poems, by Céline Arnaud. mOnocle-Lash, Nov. 2022. Pamphlet.
• Otoliths #67. print & online versions, ed. Mark Young. Two avant-romanticist translations: "Sonnet: Epigraph" by Paul de Rességuier & two chapters ("Navigation" & "Apparition") from The King of Bohemia's Seven Castles by Charles Nodier. Nov. 2022. 
• 391, Issue 10. "The Bicycle Archbishop" , "Gutta Percha" & untitled quatrain by Francis Picabia; "High Fashion Mr. AA the Antiphilosopher" by Tristan Tzara; "To Francis Picabia" by Guillaume Apollinaire; "Music Range and the Dim-witted Crocodile" by Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes; Gabrielle Buffet, "Portrait Dedicated to the Spanish"; and Albert Gleizes, "Circular Voyage". mOnocle-Lash Revenant ReIssue #1, Nov. 2022. Pamphlet.
  
• Untitled [Dada Vispo] Broadside. "Bomb Collapse to Isles under the Wind, Filmed in 3 Parts by a Surviving Canac" by Clement Pansaers, "Deception: poem for three voices" by Philippe SOUPAULT, & "A Stern Word - No. 58" by Paul Eluard. mOnocle-Lash, Aug. 2022. Broadside.
  
• Otoliths #66. print & online versions, ed. Mark Young. Four Translations of Dada Texts, 'The Devil's Tail's a Bike' by Tristan Tzara, 'Portrait Dedicated to the Spanish' by Gabrielle Buffet, 'Matachin Songs' by Céline Arnauld, and 'Zut' by Paul Dermée. July 2022.
  
• The Black Scat Review #25. Translation of Clement Marot, 'The Pretty Titty". Black Scat Press. May 2022.
• To Danton, by Louis-Xavier de Ricard. mOnocle-Lash, Feb. 2022. Pamphlet.
  
• Nero: Prince of Science, by Berthe de Courrière. mOnocle-Lash, Feb. 2022. Pamphlet.
• The Ballad of Rhymers, Three Times Bad, by Fernand Clerget. Dual translations, one straightforward and the other homophonic. mOnocle-Lash TLP, Sept. 2021. 6 pp.
  
• The Pomegranate and the Rose, by Irène Hillel-Erlanger, a.k.a. Claude Lorrey; Preface by Louis Aragon. mOnocle-Lash, Sept. 2021. 30 pp.
  
• Rêvenance 9. Translations of Laurent Tailhade, "Sardine Chauvinism" & "Third Sex"; Jean Lorraine, "Barons"; Léon Valade, "The Bead of Blood"; Alphonse Esquiros, "The Sabbat"; Berthe de Courrière, "Nero, Prince of Science"; Irène Hillel-Erlanger, "Translucent" & "Aridity"; & Pierre Albert-Birot, "Marked Path". mOnocle-Lash, Sept. 2021.
  
• Geriatrics Before the Hearth, by Rachilde. mOnocle-Lash. July 2021. 6 pp.
• Otoliths #61.  print & online versions, ed. Mark Young. Two translations from the Zutiste Notebook, 'Drunk Driver' by Rimbaud and 'But lastly, c' (anonymous). May 2021. 
  
• Synapse #5. Translations of Pierre Albert-Birot's "The Bird" (1917) and Petrus Borel's "Burn" (1831). mOnocle-Lash. March 2021.
  
• Poems to Shout and Dance: Performance Poems, 1916-1920, by Pierre Albert-Birot. mOnocle-Lash. Jan. 2021. 47 pp.
• Get It Into Gear! A deMandual for Cyclists, by Alphonse Allais. mOnocle-Lash. Jan. 2021.  Pamphlet.
• The Black Scat Review #21. Print Journal, ed. Norman Conquest. Translations of Charles Rosières, 'The Country on the Moon" & passages from Charles Nodier's The King of Bohemia's Seven Castles. Black Scat Press. Jan. 2021.
  
• Life! (1920), by Valentine de Saint-Point. mOnocle-Lash TLP. Aug. 2020. Pamphlet.
• Otoliths #58.  print & online versions, ed. Mark Young. Translations of Pierre Albert-Birot's "Metro" and "Poem for Shouting and Dancing No. 3". July 2020.
• Rêvenance 8. Translations of Anonymous Paris Dadaist, "Disc: Cénacles"; Auguste Bouzenot, "The Durga"; Gérard de Nerval, "Letter from Prison" and "Politics 1832"; Anaïs Ségalas, "A Death's Head"; Louis Aragon, "Review of Eluard's The Animals and Their Men"; Tristan Tzara, "House", & Ribemont-Dessaignes, "Pneumatic". mOnocle-Lash. June 2020.
  
• The Acetylene Eye: Dada Texts 1915-1922, by Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes. mOnocle-Lash. March 2020. 39 pp.
• Two Poems: "Poverty: An Ode" & "Groan" (c.1835), by Amable Tastu. mOnocle-Lash.  Pamphlet.
• The Black Scat Review #18. Print journal, ed. Norman Conquest. Translations of "Charmin' Party" by Verlaine & Rimbaud, and "Debauchery" by Gautier. Black Scat Press. Nov. 2019.
• The in-Appropriated Press #16. "An Prompt You" (1920) by George Ribemont-Dessaignes. mOnocle-Lash. Nov. 2019.
  
• Rêvenance 7. Translations of Nina de Callias, "The Young God's Jealousy" & "Tristan and Iseult"; Léocadie Penquer, "The Liar"; Fernand Clerget, "The Bad Rhymers' Ballad"; Léon Valade, "Pantomime". mOnocle-Lash. Sept. 2019.
• Cartomancy (1921) by André Salmon. Translated and edited Cubist poem cycle with accompanying woodcuts by Apa. mOnocle-Lash. Feb. 2019.
  
• Rêvenance 5. Translations of Philothée O'Neddy, "Incantation"; Marceline Debord-Valmore, "Lyon 1834"; The Mapah Ganneau, "Manifesto for Electoral Reform"; Gustave Karr, "Random Stuff", from Les Guêpes; J.-C. Sailer, "To My Friend"; J. Grand-Carteret, Bibliographic Notice on The Anti-Concierge; Arthur Verneuil, Untitled article from The Anti-Concierge; & Four anonymous articles on the Pipelets of Paris, 1882–1900. mOnocle-Lash. Oct. 2018.
  
• Rêvenance 4. Translations of 1833 Court report on the Badouillards; The Magna Carta of the Badouillards; Théophile Gautier, "Sonnet VII"; the Princess de Salm, "The Blindness of the Century" and "A Burn, on Female Writers"; Georges d'Heylli, "Some neologisms"; passages from Lucien Rigaut, Dictionary of Modern Slang and Privat d'Anglemont, Paris Anecdote. mOnocle-Lash. July 2018.
  
• Rêvenance 3. Translations of Alphonse Allais, "Drawbacks of Excessed Baudelairism; Alphonse Karr, Untitled article on Romanticist celebrity candies; Amable Tastu, "Groan"; Théophile Gautier, "A Line of Wordsworth's"; Auguste Maquet & Alboize Pujol, "Libertines and Revolutionaries in the French Prisons" (from Histories of the Dungeon of Vincennes and the Bastille); Philothée O'Neddy, "Succubus"; Letter from Célestin Nanteuil to Léon Clopet; and Monte-Naken, "On the Tomb of a Great Desperado". mOnocle-Lash. Jan. 2018.
  
• Rêvenance 2. Translations of Marceline Debordes-Valmore, "Parted" ; Roger de Beauvoir, from Preface to The Chevalier de Saint-George ; Alphonse Karr, Found Text printed in Les Guêpes; Charles-Henry Hirsch, "Review of Maintenant No. 1"; Arthur Cravan, "Whistle"; and Francis Vielé-Griffin, "Trust". mOnocle-Lash. Aug. 2017.
  
• Rêvenance 1. Translations of Georges d'Heylli, "Forward to the Gazette Anecdotique"; Alphonse Karr, "Forward to Les Guêpes"; Alphonse Allais, "Some Figures"; & Gérard de Nerval, "Gothic Song". mOnocle-Lash. Sept. 2016.
  
• Baptism, Marriage (1838) by 'The Mapah' Simon Ganneau. Translated & Edited Evadamist polemic tract. mOnocle-Lash. Sept. 2015.
• Two Poems (1829), by Alphonse Brot. Translated & Edited 1829 French poems, w/performance score, biography & bibliography. mOnocle-Lash. Sept. 2015. Pamphlet.
• The Fairest Death' & 'Fanaticism' (1833), by Philothée O'Neddy. Translated w/John Payne & ed. mOnocle-Lash. Aug. 2014. Pamphlet.
• New Hamlet (2012), by Gleb Kolomiets & Inna Kirillova. Consulted on Kolomiets' translation from the Russian of his & Kirillova's play. 24 pp, mOnocle-Lash. March 2014.

Selected Authors translated in publication:

• Germaine Albert-Birot: 1 Essay/Performance Score
  
• Pierre Albert-Birot: 15 poems  (+ translator's introduction)
• Alphonse Allais: 3 articles 
• Guillaume Apollinaire: 2 poems
  
• Louis Aragon: 1 book review
• Céline Arnauld: 4 poems + 2 novel chapters
  
• Roger de Beauvoir: extracts from 1 essay
  
• Petrus Borel: 4 poems + 1 prose preface +  1 article extract + 3 co-translations  (+ translator's introduction)
• Auguste Bouzenot: 1 essay
• Alphonse Brot: 4 poems + 1 short story + 1 manifesto/preface
  
• Gabrielle Buffet: 2 poems
  
• Nina de Callias: 2 poems 
• Abdullah Cevdet: 1 poem
  
• Fernand Clerget: 1 poem
• Berthe de Courrière: 1 poetic essay
  
• Arthur Cravan: 1 poem
• Marceline Debordes-Valmore: 2 poems 
• Paul Dermée: 1 poem
• Paul Eluard: 1poem
  
• Alphonse Esquiros: 1 poem
• Xavier Forneret: 1 short story/prose-poem
  
• The Mapah Ganneau: 2 polemic tracts
• Théophile Gautier: 3 poems 
• Albert Gleizes: 1 poetic essay.
  
• Irène Hillel-Erlanger: 10 poems  (+ translator's introduction)
  
• Charles-Henry Hirsch: 1 book review
• Georges d'Heylli: 2 articles
• Gustave Karr: 5 articles
• Jean Lorraine: 1 poem
• Clément Marot: 1 poem
  
• Auguste Maquet (Augustus Mac-Keat): 1 poem + 1 essay extract
• Alfred de Musset: 1 poem
  
• Monte-Naken: 1 poem
• Célestin Nanteuil: 1 letter
  
• Gérard de Nerval: 4 poems + 1 article + 1 letter
• Charles Nodier: 4 detached novel chapters
• Philothée O'Neddy (Théophile Dondey): 10 poems + 1 prose preface + 1 letter (+ translator's introduction)
  
• Clément Pansaers:1 poem
• Léocadie Penquer: 1 poem
  
• Francis Picabia: 3 poems
  
• Privat d'Anglement: 1 book extract 
• Léocadie Penquer: 1 poem
• Alboize de Pujol: 1 book extract
• Rachilde: 1 prose poem sequence 
• Paul de Rességuier: 1 poem
• Pierre Reverdy: 1 essay-poem
  
• Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes: 18 poems + 5 essays  (+ translator's introduction)
•  Louis-Xavier de Ricard: 1 poem
  
• Arthur Rimbaud: 3 poems
• Charles Rosières: 1 poem
  
• J.-C. Sailer: 1 poem
• Valentine de Saint-Point: 1 poem
  
• Constance de Salm: 2 poems
• André Salmon: 10-part poem cycle
• Anaïs Ségalas: 1 poem
• Laurent Tailhade: 3 poems
  
• Amable Tastu: 2 poems 
• Tristan  Tzara: 3 poems
• Léon Valade: 2 poems
  
• Paul Verlaine: 1 poem
• Francis Vielé-Griffin: 1 poem + 1 essay
  
• Mélanie Waldor: 1 poem