For an ineffable metrics of the deset by Mostafa Nissaboury and translated by Pierre Joris, Addie Leak Guy Bennett, Teresa Villa-Ignacio

This is poetry from Morocco.

For an ineffable metrics of the deset by Mostafa Nissaboury translated by Pierre Joris, Addie Leak Guy Bennett, Teresa Villa-Ignacio is published by Otis Books, The MFA Writing Program, Otis College of Art and Design. This is a Book originally written in French. This was published in 2018.0 and has the ISBN of 9.780986083686E12.

For an ineffable metrics of the deset, by Mostafa Nissaboury and translated by Pierre Joris, Addie Leak Guy Bennett, Teresa Villa-Ignacio from French, brings Morocco French-language poetry into English through desert measure, ineffability, and Moroccan experiment in French. The metadata gives the reader a doorway, but the real value is what happens once the poem starts making its own weather. I would read it for desert, measure, silence, and the impossibility of making exact metrics for what exceeds speech, not as a fixed lesson about a country or period. The best entry point is still the poem itself: the line that catches, the image that refuses to explain itself, the feeling that arrives before paraphrase. For an ineffable metrics of the deset belongs in the translated poetry library because it gives North African French-language poetry a formally searching and aridly luminous entry.

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