Roger Giroux

Roger Giroux was a French poet and translator.
Giroux's only book published when he was alive was L’arbre le temps, Mercure de France, 1964; it won the Max-Jacob' Prize that same year.
Giroux translated texts of W. B. Yeats, Lawrence Durrell, Rosmarie Waldrop, Edna O'Brien, Henry Miller and others authors in French.
A sample of his poems is included in , edited by Paul Auster, and generally recognized as the best anthology of Modern French poetry in English translation.
Collection of poetry: L'autre temps. Posthumous works: Voici, Théâtre, S, L'arbre le Temps suivi de Lieu-Je et de Lettre.
More recently: Poème and Journal d'un poème.