The Straw Sandals by Pierre-Albert Jourdan and translated by John Taylor

This is poetry from France.

The Straw Sandals by Pierre-Albert Jourdan translated by John Taylor is published by Chelsea Editions. This is a Book originally written in French. This was published in 2011.0 and has the ISBN of 9.780982384985E12.

The Straw Sandals, by Pierre-Albert Jourdan and translated by John Taylor from French, brings France French-language poetry into English through humility, walking, and the spiritual attention of ordinary passage. 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 sandals, road, dust, and the tenderness of moving through the world without grandeur, 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 Straw Sandals belongs in the translated poetry library because it gives French poetry a form of quiet pilgrimage and daily perception.

If you’d like to see international poetry continue and gain traction, consider requesting this work from your local library, or purchasing it from places like Open Books (a poetry only bookstore), Asterism Books (an independent press distributor), or bookshop.org to connect you with your local bookstores.

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