Lazy Suzie by Suzanne Doppelt and translated by Cole Swensen

This is poetry from France.

Lazy Suzie by Suzanne Doppelt translated by Cole Swensen is published by Litmus Press. This is a Book originally written in French. This was published in 2014.0 and has the ISBN of 9.781933959252E12.

Lazy Suzie, by Suzanne Doppelt and translated by Cole Swensen, has the feel of a book interested in drift, perception, and the slightly comic instability of objects. Doppelt’s work often sits near photography, visual art, and experimental prose, and Swensen’s translation is well suited to a poetry that wants to think with surfaces. The title sounds casual, maybe even dismissive, but that looseness can be a trick. Laziness in a poem may become a way of refusing productivity, of allowing attention to slide sideways until the ordinary begins to look staged. I would read Lazy Suzie for its odd domestic charge, its coolness, and its willingness to make perception feel unreliable in a pleasurable way. The book is less about conclusion than about the shimmer of looking.

If you’d like to see international poetry continue and gain traction, consider requesting this work from your local library, or purchasing it from places like Open Books (a poetry only bookstore), Asterism Books (an independent press distributor), or bookshop.org to connect you with your local bookstores.

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