Geometries by Eugene Guillevic and translated by Richard Sieburth

This is poetry from France.

Geometries by Eugene Guillevic translated by Richard Sieburth is published by Ugly Duckling Presse. This is a Book originally written in French. This was published in 2010.0 and has the ISBN of 9.781933254722E12.

Geometries, by Eugène Guillevic and translated by Richard Sieburth, gives us a French poet of matter, shape, and elemental attention through the language of form. Guillevic’s work often seems to speak to stones, circles, objects, and the stubborn presences of the world as if they were companions in thought. Geometries is a perfect title for that practice: poetry as measurement, relation, angle, and boundary. Sieburth’s translation offers English readers a way into a spare, exact, quietly philosophical lyric. I would read this book for the pleasure of seeing abstraction made tactile. A shape is never only a shape in Guillevic. It is a way of asking how the self touches the world without pretending to own it.

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