Disenchanted City by Chantal Bizzini and translated by Darren Jackson, J. Bradford Anderson, Marilyn Kallet

This is poetry from France.

Disenchanted City by Chantal Bizzini translated by Darren Jackson, J. Bradford Anderson, Marilyn Kallet is published by Tradeselect Limited. This is a Book originally written in French. This was published in 2015.0 and has the ISBN of 9.780996007962E12.

Disenchanted City, translated from the French by Darren Jackson, J. Bradford Anderson, Marilyn Kallet, brings Chantal Bizzini’s French-language work into English through Tradeselect Limited. Published in 2015, it is best approached as a book of encounter rather than as a book to solve. Bizzini’s city arrives already stripped of easy magic, which makes the poems attentive to urban fracture, fatigue, and the stubborn residue of wonder. I would not read this as a puzzle with a hidden answer. Read it for pressure, for texture, for the place where a line suddenly becomes stranger than its apparent subject. The book matters because it keeps the translated poem alive as encounter, not summary, and because France enters the shelf through music rather than report.

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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