Self-Shadowing Prey by Ghérasim Luca and translated by Mary Ann Caws

This is poetry from Romania.

Self-Shadowing Prey by Ghérasim Luca translated by Mary Ann Caws is published by Contra Mundum Press. This is a Book originally written in French. This was published in 2012.0 and has the ISBN of 9.780983697213E12.

Self-Shadowing Prey, by Ghérasim Luca and translated from French by Mary Ann Caws, is the kind of book that asks for a slower reader. Its center of gravity seems to be self-division, surreal pressure, and linguistic fracture, but the point is not to make those themes behave too neatly. Poetry is often most alive when it lets a reader feel a relation before naming it. I would place this book in front of someone willing to follow image, cadence, and mood before demanding a thesis. The translation carries a voice shaped by poetry connected to Romania into English while keeping enough strangeness intact for the encounter to matter. Self-Shadowing Prey belongs here because it enlarges the shelf’s emotional and linguistic weather.

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