Saint Ghetto of the Loans by Gabriel Pomerand and translated by Michael Kasper

This is poetry from France.

Saint Ghetto of the Loans by Gabriel Pomerand translated by Michael Kasper is published by World Poetry Books. This is a Book originally written in French. This was published in 2023.0 and has the ISBN of 9.78195421813E12.

Saint Ghetto of the Loans, by Gabriel Pomerand and translated by Michael Kasper, sounds like a recovered shard from the lettrist and postwar avant-garde, where language is not merely used but attacked, rearranged, and made strange at the level of the sign. Pomerand’s French experimentalism belongs near the history of visual and sound-based revolt, and World Poetry Books gives this work a serious English-language frame. I would not read this book expecting ordinary lyric transparency. The title alone is dense, comic, sacred, urban, and economic all at once. It feels like a saint’s life written through debt and distortion. The pleasure is in the pressure of language misbehaving, the way a poem can become a street, a relic, a joke, and a wound.

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