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The present voice
Ryōko Sekiguchi
Translated from French by Lindsay Turner
The present voice, by Ryōko Sekiguchi and translated by Lindsay Turner from French, brings Japan French-language poetry into English through present tense, voice, and a Japanese writer moving through French into English. 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 voice, immediacy, translation, and the fragile fact of speaking now, 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. The present voice belongs in the translated poetry library because it complicates national categories by showing how literary presence can cross several linguistic rooms.
- Published
- 2021
- Publisher
- Threadsuns
- Language
- French
- Country
- Japan
- ISBN
- 9781734691115