Book record
Sheds/hangars
José-Flore Tappy
Translated from French by John Taylor
José-Flore Tappy's Sheds/hangars, translated from French by John Taylor, brings poetry connected to Switzerland into English through storage, rural architecture, silence, and withheld memory. I would not stop at the biographical or national frame, even when those contexts matter. The better entrance is through the poem's pressure: the image that will not sit still, the phrase that feels slightly denser than ordinary speech, the moment where feeling outruns explanation. This description should help a reader know why the book belongs on the shelf without pretending the book has been solved in advance. Sheds/hangars feels useful for readers who want translated poetry to widen not only what they know, but how they listen.
- Published
- 2014
- Publisher
- Bitter Oleander Press
- Language
- French
- Country
- Switzerland
- ISBN
- 9780988352544