The Next Loves by Stéphane Bouquet and translated by Lindsay Turner

This is poetry from France.

The Next Loves by Stéphane Bouquet translated by Lindsay Turner is published by Nightboat Books. This is a Book originally written in French. This was published in 2019.0 and has the ISBN of 9.781643620053E12.

The Next Loves, by Stéphane Bouquet and translated by Lindsay Turner, sounds like a book already looking beyond the present tense of desire. Bouquet’s French poetry is often attentive to bodies, cinema, public life, friendship, sexuality, and the social arrangements that shape intimacy. The title is gentle but also restless: not love as final destination, but love as sequence, attempt, future weather. Turner’s translation brings that movement into English with room for both thought and warmth. I would read The Next Loves for its sense that tenderness is not separate from politics or form. The poem becomes a place where relation can be tested: who is near, who is desired, who is allowed to appear, and what might come after the love we thought we understood.

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