Movement Through the End / Mouvement par la fin by Philippe Rahmy and translated by Rosemary Lloyd

This is poetry from France.

Movement Through the End / Mouvement par la fin by Philippe Rahmy translated by Rosemary Lloyd is published by Bitter Oleander Press. This is a Book originally written in French. This was published in 2014.0 and has the ISBN of 9.780988352551E12.

Movement Through the End / Mouvement par la fin, translated from the French by Rosemary Lloyd, brings Philippe Rahmy’s French-language work into English through Bitter Oleander Press. Published in 2014, it is best approached as a book of encounter rather than as a book to solve. Rahmy’s bilingual title makes motion and ending inseparable, as though the poem must pass through limit rather than avoid it. I would not read this as a puzzle with a hidden answer. Read it for pressure, for texture, for the place where a line suddenly becomes stranger than its apparent subject. The book matters because it keeps the translated poem alive as encounter, not summary, and because France enters the shelf through music rather than report.

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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