It by Dominique Fourcade and translated by Peter Consenstein

This is poetry from France.

It by Dominique Fourcade translated by Peter Consenstein is published by Fence Magazine, Incorporated. This is a Book originally written in French. This was published in 2009.0 and has the ISBN of 9.781934200216E12.

It, by Dominique Fourcade and translated by Peter Consenstein, has the nerve to name itself with one of the smallest and slipperiest words in English. “It” can be object, event, body, sex, language, weather, or the thing one cannot yet name. Fourcade’s French poetry is associated with abstraction, movement, and experimental attention, and this title seems to insist that the poem may orbit a presence without pinning it down. Consenstein’s translation gives English readers a version of that difficulty where pronoun becomes field. I would read It for the pleasure of indeterminacy: the poem not as answer, but as pressure around an unnamed center. Sometimes the most exact word is the one that refuses to specify.

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