Plein Jeu

Poetry October 2009 ISBN 978-0-9844118-4-9 Softcover, 5½" x 7"

This English language chapbook is the winner of the Editor's Choice Award for the Accents Publishing 2010 Poetry Chapbook Contest.

"The poetry collection is representative of my esthetics and obsessions over the last year or so," says Belli. "My husband was away for military training this entire winter and I found myself alone in this house full of empty rooms, moths, echoes, and my piano. The collection explores that sense of being new to a place while tugging along memories from previous lives."

"The title Plein Jeu, actually refers to a type of organ registration which is composed of principals, flutes, fournitures and cymbals," explains Belli. "When the plein jeu stop is pulled, it activates all of these other stops as well. It is one of the richest tones that can be achieved. Plein jeu is what the collection feels like to me: all of the voices within me were activated."

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About the Author

E.C. Belli

E.C. Belli is a poet and translator. Her translation of I, Little Asylum, a short novel by Emmanuelle Guattari, was released by Semiotext(e) for the 2014 Whitney Biennial, and The Nothing Bird, her translation of some selected poems by Pierre Peuchmaurd, appeared with Oberlin College Press (Fall 2013). She is the recipient of a 2010 Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans and her work has appeared or is forthcoming in VERSE, AGNI, Colorado Review, Guernica, Gulf Coast, The Antioch Review, and FIELD. Work in French has appeared in Europe: revue littéraire mensuelle and PO&SIE (France), among others. She is an editor at Argos Books.