Secret of breath by Isabelle Baladine Howald and translated by Eléna Rivera

This is poetry from France.

Secret of breath by Isabelle Baladine Howald translated by Eléna Rivera is published by Burning Deck/Anyart. This is a Book originally written in French. This was published in 2008.0 and has the ISBN of 9.781886224919E12.

Secret of breath, by Isabelle Baladine Howald and translated by Eléna Rivera from French, brings France French-language poetry into English through breath, secrecy, and the invisible pressure that makes speech possible. The metadata gives the reader a doorway, but the real value is what happens once the poem starts making its own weather. I would read it for breathing, hush, interior space, and the point where the poem becomes almost bodily, not as a fixed lesson about a country or period. The best entry point is still the poem itself: the line that catches, the image that refuses to explain itself, the feeling that arrives before paraphrase. Secret of breath belongs in the translated poetry library because it helps the library include a quieter French lyric of perception and respiration.

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