Joan Darc by Nathalie Quintane and translated by Cynthia Hogue

This is poetry from France.

Joan Darc by Nathalie Quintane translated by Cynthia Hogue is published by Fence Magazine, Incorporated. This is a Book originally written in French. This was published in 2017.0 and has the ISBN of 9.781934200223E12.

Joan Darc, by Nathalie Quintane and translated by Cynthia Hogue, takes one of France’s most mythologized figures and strips the title into a stranger, flatter, more contemporary shape. Joan of Arc carries sainthood, nationalism, gender trouble, military spectacle, and martyrdom; Quintane is exactly the kind of writer one would expect to distrust the inherited monument. Hogue’s translation brings that revisionary energy into English. I would read this book for its refusal of reverence as the only way to approach history. The title itself feels like a demotion and an activation: not the official icon, but a figure re-entering language with oddness restored. Poetry here becomes a way to interrogate myth without draining it of force.

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