Trás-Os-Montes by José-Flore Tappy and translated by John Taylor

This is poetry from Switzerland.

Trás-Os-Montes by José-Flore Tappy translated by John Taylor is published by MadHat Press. This is a Book originally written in French. This was published in 2022.0 and has the ISBN of 9.781952335341E12.

José-Flore Tappy’s Trás-Os-Montes, translated by John Taylor from French, should be introduced as more than a piece of metadata. The book’s charge gathers around region, landscape, distance, and the memory of place, and that makes it valuable for readers who want poems to think through sensation rather than explanation. I like descriptions that admit when a book may ask for patience, because patience is not a flaw in poetry. It is one of the pleasures. Read this one for the line that lingers, the image that feels half familiar and half impossible, the pressure of a voice shaped by poetry connected to Switzerland without being flattened into a lesson. Trás-Os-Montes earns its place as a work of attention.

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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