My Lorenzo by Sébastien Smirou and translated by Andrew Zawacki, Jennifer Moxley

This is poetry from France.

My Lorenzo by Sébastien Smirou translated by Andrew Zawacki, Jennifer Moxley is published by Burning Deck. This is a Book originally written in French. This was published in 2012.0 and has the ISBN of 9.781936194087E12.

My Lorenzo, translated from the French by Andrew Zawacki, Jennifer Moxley, brings Sébastien Smirou’s French-language work into English through Burning Deck. Published in 2012, it is best approached as a book of encounter rather than as a book to solve. Smirou’s title feels intimate, possessive, and art-haunted, as if the poem were approaching a figure through devotion and distortion at once. The pleasure of a book like this is the permission it gives to move slowly. A reader does not have to master every reference to feel the work at hand. Sometimes the task is simply to notice how a sentence leans, how an image opens, how a voice from France changes the room around English.

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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