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urn:uuid:c5bb35b3-b697-45a9-a774-3b9fd3b2e06f 03 15 9781685713027 00 EB E101 10 01 01 Voix de Glace / Voice of Ice 1 A01 Alta Ifland Born and raised in Communist Romania, Alta Ifland came to the US as a political refugee in 1991, where she obtained a PhD in French language and literature. Ifland’s other works include a book of prose poems, The Snail’s Song (Spuyten Duyvil, 2011), which includes her original drawings, and two books of short stories, Elegy for a Fabulous World (Ninebark Press, 2010) and Death-in-a-Box (Subito Press, 2010). Ifland’s novels, The Wife Who Wasn’t and Speaking to No. 4 were published by New Europe Books in 2021 and 2022. Her latest published work, an atypical historical novel (written entirely as a dialogue), Two Queens and a Chronicler, is forthcoming in October 2025 from Open Ends Press. Ifland’s writings have been translated into French, Romanian and Russian. After living for 30 years in the US—Florida, Arizona, and California—Ifland now lives in France. 2 A24 John Taylor John Taylor is an American writer, poet, critic, and translator who has long lived in France. As a translator from three languages (French, Italian, and Modern Greek), he has brought the work of several European poets into English for the first time. His recent translations include books by Pascal Quignard, Philippe Jaccottet, Charline Lambert, Veroniki Dalakoura, Béatrice Douvre, and Franca Mancinelli. His own books of poetry and poetic prose include Remembrance of Water & Twenty-Five Trees, A Notebook of Clouds & A Notebook of Ridges, which is a “double book” co-authored with the Swiss poet Pierre Chappuis, and What Comes from the Night. 01 eng 01 fre 00 160 03 23 exile 23 Fabulations 10 POE024000 23 identity 23 Languages+Translations 10 POE027000 23 language 23 Eastern Europe 23 prose poetry 23 translation 01 06 03 00 Voix de Glace/Voice of Ice is a series of prose poems about the estranged self living outside of one’s native land and away from one’s native tongue. Romanian poet Alta Ifland writes first in French, then translates her work into English, before returning to the original French for further revisions, a process of linguistic reconciliation as much as translation.Published in a bilingual, French–English edition, Ifland repeatedly turns to remembered images of her unnamed homeland to animate her unfamiliar home, creating, what poet Gary Young calls “a brilliant collection of prose poems document[ing] the quest for a coherent self, an authentic identity born out of the chaos of language and history." He continues, "Ifland's poems trace a radical process of de-creation—dismemberment of the body, dissolution of the ego, abandonment of the self—and the reinvention of a new identity, purified by the acid of tears. This new creation—tentative and rarified, “a child’s body of light”—earns a tenuous existence, but it proves to be enough to withstand the omnipresent threat of oblivion."Voix de Glace/Voice of Ice won the 2008 Prix Louis Guillaume du Poème en Prose/Louis Guillaume Prize for Prose Poetry.This title is a second revised and expanded edition, released as part of punctum’s Special Collections project. Les Figues 01 punctum books 04 01 20251126 02 WORLD 06 15 9781685713003 06 15 9781685713010 06 15 9781685713027 WORLD 09 punctum books 20 01