Citizens of beauty by Jean Sénac and translated by Jack Hirschman

This is poetry from Algeria.

Citizens of beauty by Jean Sénac translated by Jack Hirschman is published by Michigan State University Press. This is a Book originally written in French. This was published in 2016.0 and has the ISBN of 9.78161186199E12.

Citizens of Beauty, by Algerian poet Jean Sénac and translated by Jack Hirschman, sounds like a book with a civic imagination of lyric life. Beauty here is not private decoration; it is something one might belong to, argue for, or be exiled from. Sénac’s life and work are often bound to Algeria, revolution, desire, and the charged politics of French-language writing in a postcolonial context. I would read this book as both intimate and public, a poetry of address that refuses to separate eros from justice or song from risk. Hirschman’s translation gives English readers access to a poet for whom beauty may be a citizenship more demanding than any passport.

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