Four Cut-Ups, or, the Case of the Restored Volume by David Lespiau and translated by Keith Waldrop

This is poetry from France.

Four Cut-Ups, or, the Case of the Restored Volume by David Lespiau translated by Keith Waldrop is published by Burning Deck. This is a Book originally written in French. This was published in 2011.0 and has the ISBN of 9.781936194049E12.

Four Cut-Ups, or, the Case of the Restored Volume, by David Lespiau and translated by Keith Waldrop, announces its method with a wink toward procedure and mystery. Cut-ups belong to the tradition of collage, disruption, and recombined language, while the “restored volume” suggests that fragmentation and repair may be part of the same act. Waldrop’s translation is a natural fit for formally adventurous French work, given his long devotion to experimental writing. I would read this book for the pleasures of disassembly: sentences becoming evidence, pages becoming cases, meaning arriving through rearrangement rather than confession. It is not the kind of poetry that asks to be solved. It asks to be handled, shuffled, and re-seen.

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