Minute-operas by Frédéric Forte and translated by Ian Monk, Michelle Noteboom, Jean-Jacques Poucel Daniel Levin Becker

This is poetry from France.

Minute-operas by Frédéric Forte translated by Ian Monk, Michelle Noteboom, Jean-Jacques Poucel Daniel Levin Becker is published by Burning Deck/Anyart. This is a Book originally written in French. This was published in 2015.0 and has the ISBN of 9.781936194186E12.

Minute-operas, by Frédéric Forte and translated by Ian Monk, Michelle Noteboom, Jean-Jacques Poucel, and Daniel Levin Becker, sounds like a book devoted to scale: tiny performances, compressed drama, lyric gestures that know they are onstage. Forte is associated with Oulipian and formally playful French writing, which means the reader should expect structure to be part of the pleasure rather than a hidden mechanism. The title suggests miniature theater, but also music under constraint. I would read Minute-operas for the delight of smallness made elaborate, of language staging its own rules and then finding feeling inside them. Multiple translators also make the book feel collaborative in a fitting way. A brief form can still contain costume, entrance, aria, accident, and exit.

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