Calazaza’s Delicious Dereliction by Suzanne Dracius and translated by Nancy Naomi Carlson

This is poetry from Martinique.

Calazaza’s Delicious Dereliction by Suzanne Dracius translated by Nancy Naomi Carlson is published by Tupelo Press. This is a Book originally written in French. This was published in 2015.0 and has the ISBN of 9.781936797646E12.

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.

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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