Think of Lampedusa by Josué Guébo and translated by Todd Fredson

This is poetry from Cote D’Ivoire.

Think of Lampedusa by Josué Guébo translated by Todd Fredson is published by University of Nebraska Press. This is a Book originally written in French. This was published in 2017.0 and has the ISBN of 9.781496200426E12.

Think of Lampedusa, translated from the French by Todd Fredson, brings Josué Guébo’s French-language work into English through University of Nebraska Press. Published in 2017, it is best approached as a book of encounter rather than as a book to solve. Guébo’s title names Lampedusa as more than a place. It becomes a threshold where migration, water, Europe, Africa, and conscience converge. I would begin with the poem itself: the image that refuses to behave, the phrase that gives the page a new temperature, the pressure of voice moving from one language into another. Good translated poetry does not only deliver information about Cote D’Ivoire. It changes the reader’s sense of what English can hold, which makes this volume both a literary record and a readerly invitation.

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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