Outside by André Du Bouchet and translated by Hoyt Rogers, Eric Fishman

This is poetry from France.

Outside by André Du Bouchet translated by Hoyt Rogers, Eric Fishman is published by Bitter Oleander Press, The. This is a Book originally written in French. This was published in 2020.0 and has the ISBN of 9.780999327982E12.

Outside, translated from the French by Hoyt Rogers, Eric Fishman, brings André Du Bouchet’s French-language work into English through Bitter Oleander Press, The. Published in 2020, it is best approached as a book of encounter rather than as a book to solve. Du Bouchet’s title is nearly elemental: exterior, air, stone, exposure, and the mind trying to meet what is not itself. I would begin with the poem itself: the image that refuses to behave, the phrase that gives the page a new temperature, the pressure of voice moving from one language into another. Good translated poetry does not only deliver information about France. It changes the reader’s sense of what English can hold, which makes this volume both a literary record and a readerly invitation.

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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