Book record
No Way in the Skin Without This Bloody Embrace
Jean D'Amérique
Translated from French by Conor Bracken
No Way in the Skin Without This Bloody Embrace, by Jean D'Amérique and translated from French by Conor Bracken, is the kind of book that asks for a slower reader. Its center of gravity seems to be skin, blood, tenderness, and political wreckage, but the point is not to make those themes behave too neatly. Poetry is often most alive when it lets a reader feel a relation before naming it. I would place this book in front of someone willing to follow image, cadence, and mood before demanding a thesis. The translation carries a voice shaped by poetry connected to Haiti into English while keeping enough strangeness intact for the encounter to matter. No Way in the Skin Without This Bloody Embrace belongs here because it enlarges the shelf's emotional and linguistic weather.
- Published
- 2022
- Publisher
- Ugly Duckling Presse
- Language
- French
- Country
- Haiti
- ISBN
- 9781946433947