Of flies and monkeys by Jacques Dupin and translated by John Taylor

This is poetry from France.

Of flies and monkeys by Jacques Dupin translated by John Taylor is published by Bitter Oleander Press. This is a Book originally written in French. This was published in 2011.0 and has the ISBN of 9.780978633547E12.

Of flies and monkeys, by Jacques Dupin and translated by John Taylor, has a title that lets the animal world enter the poem with mischief and unease. Dupin’s French poetry is associated with fragmentation, art, landscape, violence, and a restless relation to the image. Flies and monkeys are not pastoral creatures here so much as disturbances: quick, bodily, unruly, hard to dignify in the usual lyric way. Taylor’s translation gives English readers a Dupin who feels alert to motion and abrasion. I would read this book for the energy of interruption, for the way a poem can become more alive when it refuses noble scenery. There is something bracing in poetry that lets the ugly, comic, and creaturely remain inside the field of attention.

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