Night and Day by Pierre Alferi and translated by Kate Campbell

This is poetry from France.

Night and Day by Pierre Alferi translated by Kate Campbell is published by Fence Magazine, Incorporated. This is a Book originally written in French. This was published in 2012.0 and has the ISBN of 9.781934200582E12.

Night and Day, translated from the French by Kate Campbell, brings Pierre Alferi’s French-language work into English through Fence Magazine, Incorporated. Published in 2012, it is best approached as a book of encounter rather than as a book to solve. Alferi’s title gives the oldest contrast in the world a clean experimental frame, asking what shifts when time becomes structure. A useful way into the book is to listen for what the translation makes possible: not a perfect replacement of the original, but a new body of sound. The poems carry France into English without becoming a cultural brochure. They ask for attention, and they reward the reader who lets uncertainty remain useful.

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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