At the devil’s banquets by Anise Koltz and translated by John Deane

This is poetry from Luxembourg.

At the devil’s banquets by Anise Koltz translated by John Deane is published by Tavern Books. This is a Book originally written in French. This was published in 2017.0 and has the ISBN of 9.781935635666E12.

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.

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