Fortino Sámano by Virginie Lalucq and translated by Cynthia Hogue, Sylvain Gallais

This is poetry from France.

Fortino Sámano by Virginie Lalucq translated by Cynthia Hogue, Sylvain Gallais is published by Omnidawn Pub.. This is a Book originally written in French. This was published in 2012.0 and has the ISBN of 9.781890650674E12.

Fortino Sámano, translated from the French by Cynthia Hogue, Sylvain Gallais, brings Virginie Lalucq’s French-language work into English through Omnidawn Pub.. Published in 2012, it is best approached as a book of encounter rather than as a book to solve. The book turns around an image of revolutionary death and asks what a face, a photograph, and a poem can keep alive after history has made its claim. I would begin with the poem itself: the image that refuses to behave, the phrase that gives the page a new temperature, the pressure of voice moving from one language into another. Good translated poetry does not only deliver information about France. It changes the reader’s sense of what English can hold, which makes this volume both a literary record and a readerly invitation.

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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