Woman with Several Lives by Jean Daive and translated by Norma Cole

This is poetry from France.

Woman with Several Lives by Jean Daive translated by Norma Cole is published by Fence Magazine, Incorporated. This is a Book originally written in French. This was published in 2012.0 and has the ISBN of 9.781934200513E12.

Woman with Several Lives, by Jean Daive and translated by Norma Cole from French, brings France French-language poetry into English through multiplicity, feminine presence, and the unstable narrative of a self with more than one life. 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 woman, selves, memory, and the feeling that identity is always being rewritten, 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. Woman with Several Lives belongs in the translated poetry library because it belongs as a work of French experimental lyric concerned with personhood and recurrence.

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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