Poet by default by Tristan Corbière and translated by Noelle Kocot

This is poetry from France.

Poet by default by Tristan Corbière translated by Noelle Kocot is published by Wave Books. This is a Book originally written in French. This was published in 2011.0 and has the ISBN of 9.781933517605E12.

Poet by default, by Tristan Corbière and translated by Noelle Kocot, is a title that already understands the comedy and curse of lyric identity. Corbière’s French poetry is salty, jagged, ironic, marine, and resistant to polite self-presentation. He is one of those poets whose work seems to sneer at poetic dignity while secretly needing the poem with great intensity. Kocot’s translation gives English readers access to that odd tonal mixture: mockery, ache, theatricality, and rough music. I would read Poet by default as a book about failure turned into style. The poet is not crowned here; he is cornered into song. That makes the work feel strangely contemporary, especially for readers suspicious of grand poetic poses but still hungry for lyric force.

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