Blueberries and Apricots by Natasha Kanapé Fontaine and translated by Howard Scott

This is poetry from Canada.

Blueberries and Apricots by Natasha Kanapé Fontaine translated by Howard Scott is published by Mawenzi House. This is a Book originally written in French. This was published in 2018.0 and has the ISBN of 9.781988449326E12.

Blueberries and Apricots, translated from the French by Howard Scott, brings Natasha Kanapé Fontaine’s French-language work into English through Mawenzi House. Published in 2018, it is best approached as a book of encounter rather than as a book to solve. Kanapé Fontaine’s title brings fruit, color, land, and inheritance into the same small bowl, a reminder that the sensual can also be political. A useful way into the book is to listen for what the translation makes possible: not a perfect replacement of the original, but a new body of sound. The poems carry Canada into English without becoming a cultural brochure. They ask for attention, and they reward the reader who lets uncertainty remain useful.

If you’d like to see international poetry continue and gain traction, consider requesting this work from your local library, or purchasing it from places like Open Books (a poetry only bookstore), Asterism Books (an independent press distributor), or bookshop.org to connect you with your local bookstores.

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