Book record
My planet of kites
Marie-Ève Comtois
Translated from French by Michele Winters
My Planet of Kites, by Marie-Ève Comtois and translated by Michele Winters and Stuart Ross, has a title that feels airy, childlike, and cosmically odd. A planet of kites suggests play scaled up into a whole world, strings tying the hand to the sky, fragile structures held aloft by weather. As a French-Canadian collection, the book likely brings together whimsy and seriousness in a way that resists the false split between imagination and adult feeling. I would read it for its vertical motion: the poem as lift, tether, drift, and bright paper against the air. The co-translation gives the book another kind of stringwork, a collaborative effort to carry Comtois’s lyric play into English.
- Published
- 2014
- Publisher
- Mansfield Press
- Language
- French
- Country
- Canada
- ISBN
- 9781771260619