Book record
Recovery
Vincent Broqua
Translated from French by Cole Swensen
Vincent Broqua’s Recovery, translated by Cole Swensen, carries a title that seems plain until it begins to multiply. Recovery can mean healing, retrieval, repetition, return, or the restoration of a lost file, body, memory, or voice. Broqua’s French work, brought into English by one of the major American poet-translators of contemporary French writing, likely operates in a formally alert space where process itself becomes subject. Swensen’s translation is important because she is especially attuned to language that thinks through fracture and motion. I would read this book as an inquiry into what can be recovered and what recovery changes. The title does not promise cure. It opens a field where loss, procedure, memory, and language keep trying to reassemble themselves.
- Publisher
- Pamenar Press
- Language
- French
- Country
- France