Mystérieuse by Éric Suchére and translated by Sandra Doller

This is poetry from France.

Mystérieuse by Éric Suchére translated by Sandra Doller is published by Anomalous Press. This is a Book originally written in French. This was published in 2013.0 and has the ISBN of 9.781939781048E12.

Mystérieuse, by Éric Suchère and translated by Sandra Doller, wears its mystery openly, though that does not mean it gives the reader a puzzle to solve. Suchère’s French poetry is interested in art, perception, abstraction, and the relations between image and sentence. In English, the title keeps its French aura, suggesting that mystery is not an obstacle but the book’s chosen atmosphere. I would read Mystérieuse for the pleasure of not knowing too quickly what kind of space the poem is building. Some poems ask to be entered like rooms with lights off: slowly, by touch, with attention to the edges. The book’s value is in that charged indeterminacy, the sense that lyric thought can remain lucid while still refusing to explain itself all the way down.

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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