Book record
My Dinosaur
François Turcot
Translated from French by Erin Mouré
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.
- Published
- 2016
- Publisher
- Bookhug
- Language
- French
- Country
- Canada
- ISBN
- 9781771662307