Jody Gladding
Jody Gladding is a translator and poet. Her translations include Sylviane Agacinski's Time Passing (2003) and Pierre Moinot's As Night Follows Day (2001). Her Stone Crop appeared in the Yale Younger Poets Series. She is the recipient of a Whiting Writers Award in poetry.
Borrowing from Edmund White, in his introduction to Jean Giono's transitionary novel Melville, a new reader to Jean Giono should be ready for unrivaled mystical power and a non-anthropocentric foregrounding of nature. We're so accustomed to character-driven plot that it's hard to even conceive of character as background. But this is crucial to understanding the world Giono depicts.