To Speak To Tell You Poems by Sabine Sicaud and translated by Norman Shapiro

This is poetry from France.

To Speak To Tell You Poems by Sabine Sicaud translated by Norman Shapiro is published by Black Widow Press. This is a Book originally written in French. This was published in 2009.0 and has the ISBN of 9.780981808888E12.

To Speak To Tell You Poems, by Sabine Sicaud and translated by Norman Shapiro from French, brings France French-language poetry into English through address, speech, and the urgent vulnerability of wanting to tell someone something before silence arrives. 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 speaking, disclosure, youth, and the tenderness of poems that feel almost handed across a room, 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. To Speak To Tell You Poems belongs in the translated poetry library because it belongs as a French lyric of directness, fragility, and human address.

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