Big Game by Benjamin Péret and translated by Marilyn Kallet

This is poetry from France.

Big Game by Benjamin Péret translated by Marilyn Kallet is published by Tradeselect Limited. This is a Book originally written in French. This was published in 2011.0 and has the ISBN of 9.780981808864E12.

Big Game, by Benjamin Péret and translated by Marilyn Kallet, brings English readers into the orbit of a French Surrealist whose work delights in revolt, dream logic, and comic violence against ordinary sense. The title is wonderfully ambiguous: game as play, game as hunt, game as risk, game as scale. Péret’s poetry is not likely to sit politely in the chair provided for it. It wants to leap, mock, bite, and rearrange the furniture. Kallet’s translation has to preserve that energy without tidying up the strangeness that makes it matter. I would read this book when in need of poetry that refuses good behavior, a lyric field where absurdity becomes a form of freedom.

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