New exercises by Franck André Jamme and translated by Charles Borkhuis

This is poetry from France.

New exercises by Franck André Jamme translated by Charles Borkhuis is published by Wave Books. This is a Book originally written in French. This was published in 2008.0 and has the ISBN of 9.78193351736E12.

New exercises, by Franck André Jamme and translated by Charles Borkhuis, suggests practice, repetition, and spiritual or formal discipline. Jamme’s French work often circles aphorism, mysticism, visual arrangement, and spare lyric pressure. The title sounds almost modest, as though these poems are not monuments but drills, attempts, gestures repeated until they disclose a different kind of attention. I like that humility. A poem can be an exercise in looking, breathing, naming, unlearning. Borkhuis’s translation gives English readers a way into Jamme’s quiet intensities without making them too neat. I would read this book for its stripped-down seriousness, the way it treats poetry as a form of practice rather than performance. Sometimes the smallest page can feel like a devotional instrument.

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