All is flesh by Yannick Renaud and translated by Hugh Hazelton

This is poetry from Canada.

All is flesh by Yannick Renaud translated by Hugh Hazelton is published by Talonbooks. This is a Book originally written in French. This was published in 2011.0 and has the ISBN of 9.780889226722E12.

All Is Flesh, by Yannick Renaud and translated by Hugh Hazelton, announces a world without abstraction’s escape hatch. Flesh means vulnerability, appetite, mortality, sex, wound, and incarnation. As a French-Canadian work, the book likely participates in a Québécois literary context where language and body are both charged with identity and pressure. I would read this collection for the way its title refuses polite distance: everything has texture, everything can bruise, everything must eventually be felt. Hazelton’s translation brings that bodily insistence into English. The appeal here is not simply sensuality, but the reminder that thought itself happens in a body. Poetry, at its best, does not let us float away from that fact.

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