Small Bibles for Bad Times by Atlan Atlan Liliane and translated by Marguerite Feitlowitz

This is poetry from France.

Small Bibles for Bad Times by Atlan Atlan Liliane translated by Marguerite Feitlowitz is published by Mandel Vilar Press. This is a Book originally written in French. This was published in 2020.0 and has the ISBN of 9.781942134688E12.

Small Bibles for Bad Times, by Atlan Atlan Liliane and translated by Marguerite Feitlowitz from French, brings France French-language poetry into English through scripture, catastrophe, and the small texts people make when history turns hostile. 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 bibles, bad times, survival, and the urge to write sacred fragments for damaged days, 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. Small Bibles for Bad Times belongs in the translated poetry library because it offers French poetry as a tool for crisis without making crisis picturesque.

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