Some Thing Black

Dalkey Archive
Jacques Roubaud, translated by Rosmarie Waldrop, photographer Alix C Roubaud
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Written in the years following the sudden death of Roubaud's wife, Some Thing Black is a profound and moving transcription of loss, mourning, grief, and the attempts to face honestly and live with the consequences of death, the ever-present not-there-ness of the person who was/is loved.