Coït by Chantal Neveu and translated by Angela Carr

This is poetry from Canada.

Coït by Chantal Neveu translated by Angela Carr is published by BookThug. This is a Book originally written in French. This was published in 2012.0 and has the ISBN of 9.781927040393E12.

Coït, by Chantal Neveu and translated by Angela Carr, is a book that refuses coyness from the title onward. The French word points directly toward sex, but a good poem never stops at the named subject. It asks what language does to contact, what bodies do to grammar, what intimacy sounds like when stripped of polite euphemism. As a Québécois work in translation, the book likely also carries the charged relation between French and English, between local speech and literary experiment. Carr’s translation matters because the erotic here is probably formal as much as thematic. I would read Coït as a book of proximity: bodies, sounds, pressures, interruptions, and the charged space where speech becomes touch.

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