Flirt Formula by Anne Portugal and translated by Jean-Jacques Poucel

This is poetry from France.

Flirt Formula by Anne Portugal translated by Jean-Jacques Poucel is published by La Presse. This is a Book originally written in French. This was published in 2012.0 and has the ISBN of 9.781934200537E12.

Flirt Formula, translated from the French by Jean-Jacques Poucel, brings Anne Portugal’s French-language work into English through La Presse. Published in 2012, it is best approached as a book of encounter rather than as a book to solve. Portugal’s title makes desire sound procedural, which is part of its charm: the poem as equation, joke, experiment, and social misfire. A useful way into the book is to listen for what the translation makes possible: not a perfect replacement of the original, but a new body of sound. The poems carry France into English without becoming a cultural brochure. They ask for attention, and they reward the reader who lets uncertainty remain useful.

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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