Europes by Jacques Réda and translated by Aaron Prevots

This is poetry from France.

Europes by Jacques Réda translated by Aaron Prevots is published by Host Publications. This is a Book originally written in French. This was published in 2009.0 and has the ISBN of 9.780924047701E12.

Europes, by Jacques Réda and translated by Aaron Prevots, gives the plural to a continent too often spoken of as singular. That plural matters. Europe is not one imagination, one road, one city, one memory. Réda’s poetry is often associated with walking, music, urban observation, and a supple reflective voice, and this book likely turns travel into a method of listening. I would read Europes not as a guidebook, but as a lyric itinerary through overlapping histories and streets. Prevots’s translation gives English-language readers access to a French poet for whom movement can become attention. The poems may ask what it means to belong to a place that is already many places at once.

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