Walls by Marcel Cohen and translated by Brian Evenson, Joanna Howard

This is poetry from France.

Walls by Marcel Cohen translated by Brian Evenson, Joanna Howard is published by The Brooklyn Rail/Black Square Editions. This is a Book originally written in French. This was published in 2009.0 and has the ISBN of 9.781934029053E12.

Walls, by Marcel Cohen and translated by Brian Evenson, Joanna Howard from French, brings France French-language poetry into English through enclosure, surface, and the architecture of separation. 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 walls, rooms, borders, and the emotional geometry of what divides one life from another, 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. Walls belongs in the translated poetry library because it lets French prose-poetic attention move through physical limits and interior pressure.

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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