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Calazaza’s Delicious Dereliction
Suzanne Dracius
Translated from French by Nancy Naomi Carlson
With Calazaza's Delicious Dereliction, Suzanne Dracius enters the English-language poetry shelf through Nancy Naomi Carlson's translation from French. The book can be situated through Caribbean identity, sensual argument, and gendered refusal, though its real life will happen in the reader's contact with particular lines. A useful review should make room for that uncertainty. I would not promise that every poem will open immediately, and I would not want it to. Some books matter because they give us something complicated to think beside. This one belongs in the translated poetry library because it carries a distinct pressure of poetry connected to Martinique: not a report about elsewhere, but a living encounter with another arrangement of sound, memory, and feeling.
- Published
- 2015
- Publisher
- Tupelo Press
- Language
- French
- Country
- Martinique
- ISBN
- 9781936797646