Alexander Dickow
Alexander Dickow is professor of French at Virginia Tech. He writes in French and English. Recent works include a series of aphorisms or critical fragments in French, Déblais (Louise Bottu, 2021). His long narrative/dramatic poem Hob's Game is seeking a publisher now. He is also a translator, and a literary scholar.
Dec/Jan 2023–24Books
Trying to Find a Place to Live: A Two-Way Interview Conversation by Alexander Dickow and Jay Besemer
When I read Men and Sleep, and even before the explanatory note at the end of the book, I kept wondering about the process of its creation, which you announce succinctly just before the poems begin as a procedure of modified erasure. My question isn’t so much “what does that mean” as “what do you think of creative procedures in relation to the result?”
