Pybrac by Pierre Louÿs and translated by Geoffrey Longnecker

This is poetry from France.

Pybrac by Pierre Louÿs translated by Geoffrey Longnecker is published by Wakefield Press. This is a Book originally written in French. This was published in 2014.0 and has the ISBN of 9.781939663023E12.

Pybrac, by Pierre Louÿs and translated by Geoffrey Longnecker, comes from the stranger, sharper edge of French literary play. Louÿs is often associated with eroticism, classical pastiche, and refined provocation, and this book’s title points toward formal echo and satirical lineage rather than conventional lyric confession. Wakefield Press is especially good at returning odd literary artifacts to circulation, and this volume seems to belong to that delightful zone of rediscovered misbehavior. I would read Pybrac with suspicion and pleasure, expecting wit, artifice, and possibly indecency disguised as form. Not every poem wants to purify the soul. Some remind us that literary history is full of games, masks, insults, appetites, and beautifully arranged trouble.

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