Essential Poems and Writings of Joyce Mansour by Joyce Mansour and translated by Serge Gavronsky

This is poetry from France.

Essential Poems and Writings of Joyce Mansour by Joyce Mansour translated by Serge Gavronsky is published by Black Widow Press. This is a Book originally written in French. This was published in 2008.0 and has the ISBN of 9.780979513725E12.

Essential Poems and Writings of Joyce Mansour, translated from the French by Serge Gavronsky, brings Joyce Mansour’s French-language work into English through Black Widow Press. Published in 2008, it is best approached as a book of encounter rather than as a book to solve. Mansour’s work belongs to the ferocious wing of surrealism, where eroticism, death, violence, and laughter refuse to stay politely separate. The pleasure of a book like this is the permission it gives to move slowly. A reader does not have to master every reference to feel the work at hand. Sometimes the task is simply to notice how a sentence leans, how an image opens, how a voice from France changes the room around English.

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.

Check out more of the always in-progress translated poetry index here.