Haunted Hand by Louise Dupré and translated by Donald Winkler

This is poetry from Canada.

Haunted Hand by Louise Dupré translated by Donald Winkler is published by Guernica Editions, Incorporated. This is a Book originally written in French. This was published in 2020.0 and has the ISBN of 9.781771835107E12.

Haunted Hand, by Louise Dupré and translated by Donald Winkler, has a title that turns writing into a ghostly bodily act. A hand can touch, make, remember, wound, or tremble; if it is haunted, then the poem becomes an instrument of return. Dupré is an important Québécois writer whose work often moves through intimacy, loss, and the gendered textures of memory. I would read this collection for its sense that the body keeps records the mind may not know how to file. Winkler’s translation brings the French into English with attention to emotional precision. Haunted Hand sounds like a book for readers interested in grief that is tactile rather than abstract, a lyric presence that lingers in the fingers.

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