Book record
Cargo Hold of Stars
Khal Torabully
Translated from French by Nancy Naomi Carlson
In Cargo Hold of Stars, Khal Torabully arrives in English through Nancy Naomi Carlson's translation from French, with a lyric field shaped by migration, oceanic inheritance, and the afterlives of empire. The metadata gives the reader a doorway, but the book should not be reduced to a country-language-press summary. I would read it for atmosphere and attention first: what kind of silence it makes, what kind of body it imagines, what kind of world becomes visible when the poem turns its head. The strongest value of this entry is that it gives readers permission to approach difficulty as texture rather than a locked door. Cargo Hold of Stars belongs in the library as a book of encounter, not simply information.
- Published
- 2021
- Publisher
- Seagull Books
- Language
- French
- Country
- France, Mauritius
- ISBN
- 9780857427854