Elektrik by Anthology and translated by Fabienne Kanor, Gaël Octavia, Marie-Célie Agnant, Mireille Jean-Gilles, Sarah Coolidge, Various

This is poetry from France.

Elektrik by Anthology translated by Fabienne Kanor, Gaël Octavia, Marie-Célie Agnant, Mireille Jean-Gilles, Sarah Coolidge, Various is published by Two Lines Press. This is a Book originally written in French. This was published in 2023.0 and has the ISBN of 9.781949641509E12.

Elektrik is an anthology of French poetry, translated by Fabienne Kanor, Gaël Octavia, Marie-Célie Agnant, Mireille Jean-Gilles, Sarah Coolidge, Various, published by Two Lines Press in 2023. It is an anthology of French-language writing whose title suggests current, shock, transmission, and charged collective speech. As an anthology, it belongs in the library because it gives the reader a field of voices rather than a monument, making electricity feel like a poetics of contact. I would not approach it as a book that needs to be solved before it can be felt. Start with the pressure of the title, the texture of the translated line, and the feeling of a voice making room for itself in English. For this library, the book matters as more than a record of France; it is an invitation to let poetry remain particular, difficult, and alive without asking it to behave like explanation.

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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