Third body by Michel Delville and translated by Gian Lombardo

This is poetry from Belgium.

Third body by Michel Delville translated by Gian Lombardo is published by Quale Press. This is a Book originally written in French. This was published in 2009.0 and has the ISBN of 9.780979299971E12.

Third Body, by Michel Delville and translated by Gian Lombardo, has a title that feels theoretical, erotic, and spectral all at once. A third body might be the body produced between lovers, between text and translation, between the real and the imagined, or between reader and poem. Delville’s Belgian French-language work likely sits near prose poetry and experimental lyric, where form itself becomes part of the argument. I would read this book for its interest in embodiment without easy confession. The body here does not seem singular or settled; it is mediated, multiplied, examined, perhaps even invented by language. Lombardo’s translation gives the English version a chance to maintain that strangeness without forcing it into clarity too soon.

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