To Each Unfolding Leaf, Selected Poems by Pierre Voelin and translated by John Taylor

This is poetry from France.

To Each Unfolding Leaf, Selected Poems by Pierre Voelin translated by John Taylor is published by Bitter Oleander Press, The. This is a Selected originally written in French. This was published in 2017.0 and has the ISBN of 9.780986204968E12.

To Each Unfolding Leaf, Selected Poems, translated from the French by John Taylor, brings Pierre Voelin’s French-language work into English through Bitter Oleander Press, The. Published in 2017, it is best approached as selected poems of encounter rather than as a book to solve. Voelin’s selected poems, by title alone, ask for patient attention to unfolding, not revelation as lightning but revelation as leaf-work. A useful way into the book is to listen for what the translation makes possible: not a perfect replacement of the original, but a new body of sound. The poems carry France into English without becoming a cultural brochure. They ask for attention, and they reward the reader who lets uncertainty remain useful.

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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