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At the devil’s banquets
Anise Koltz
Translated from French by John Deane
At the devil's banquets, by Anise Koltz and translated by John Deane from French, brings Luxembourg French-language poetry into English through banquet, devilry, and a Luxembourgish French-language lyric with bite. The metadata gives the reader a doorway, but the real value is what happens once the poem starts making its own weather. I would read it for devil, feast, appetite, and the pleasure of poems that know darkness can be theatrical, not as a fixed lesson about a country or period. The best entry point is still the poem itself: the line that catches, the image that refuses to explain itself, the feeling that arrives before paraphrase. At the devil's banquets belongs in the translated poetry library because it adds a sharp, ritual, and slightly wicked texture to the library.
- Published
- 2017
- Publisher
- Tavern Books
- Language
- French
- Country
- Luxembourg
- ISBN
- 9781935635666