Beyond Elsewhere by Gabriel Arnou-Laujeac and translated by Helene Cardona

This is poetry from France.

Beyond Elsewhere by Gabriel Arnou-Laujeac translated by Helene Cardona is published by White Pine Press. This is a Book originally written in French. This was published in 2016.0 and has the ISBN of 9.781935210832E12.

Beyond Elsewhere, by Gabriel Arnou-Laujeac and translated by Hélène Cardona, is a title already pushing past ordinary distance. Elsewhere is where lyric desire often goes when the present world feels insufficient, but beyond elsewhere suggests a more metaphysical hunger. The book seems to belong to a French tradition of romantic, spiritual, and visionary address, where the beloved, the horizon, and the inner life may blur into one another. I would read it for its sincerity of reach. Some poetry wants to be ironic about longing; this title does not. Cardona’s translation likely preserves that elevated register, giving English readers a work of distance, devotion, and luminous elsewhere.

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