Monospace by Anne Parian and translated by Emma Ramadan

This is poetry from France.

Monospace by Anne Parian translated by Emma Ramadan is published by La Presse. This is a Book originally written in French. This was published in 2015.0 and has the ISBN of 9.780986437311E12.

Monospace, translated from the French by Emma Ramadan, brings Anne Parian’s French-language work into English through La Presse. Published in 2015, it is best approached as a book of encounter rather than as a book to solve. Parian’s title brings typography into the imagination, making spacing, arrangement, and the look of language part of the lyric event. Biography and context may deepen the experience, but they do not need to stand in the doorway. Let the poem arrive first, then let the questions follow. Translation here becomes less a matter of loss than of new access: a voice from France finding another set of nerves in English.

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