My Dinosaur by François Turcot and translated by Erín Mouré

This is poetry from Canada.

My Dinosaur by François Turcot translated by Erín Mouré is published by Bookhug. This is a Book originally written in French. This was published in 2016.0 and has the ISBN of 9.781771662307E12.

My Dinosaur, translated from the French by Erín Mouré, brings François Turcot’s French-language work into English through Bookhug. Published in 2016, it is best approached as a book of encounter rather than as a book to solve. Turcot’s title sounds playful at first, but the best playful titles in poetry often arrive carrying extinction, memory, childhood, and ridiculous tenderness. I would begin with the poem itself: the image that refuses to behave, the phrase that gives the page a new temperature, the pressure of voice moving from one language into another. Good translated poetry does not only deliver information about Canada. It changes the reader’s sense of what English can hold, which makes this volume both a literary record and a readerly invitation.

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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