Book record
The Future Has an Appointment with the Dawn
Tanella Boni
Translated from French by Todd Fredson
The Future Has an Appointment with the Dawn, translated from the French by Todd Fredson, brings Tanella Boni's French-language work into English through University of Nebraska Press. Published in 2018, it is best approached as a book of encounter rather than as a book to solve. Boni’s title is almost extravagant in its hope, yet the phrase carries political intelligence as much as consolation. A useful way into the book is to listen for what the translation makes possible: not a perfect replacement of the original, but a new body of sound. The poems carry Cote D'Ivoire into English without becoming a cultural brochure. They ask for attention, and they reward the reader who lets uncertainty remain useful.
- Published
- 2018
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press
- Language
- French
- Country
- Cote D'Ivoire
- ISBN
- 9781496211859