LONGLISTED for the 2020 National Translation Award in Poetry
FINALIST for the Best Translated Book Awards
Located at the intersection of the individual and the social capturing the complexities of desire in a global age.
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LONGLISTED for the 2020 National Translation Award in Poetry
FINALIST for the Best Translated Book Awards
Weight | 0.4 lbs |
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Format | eBook, Paperback |
In Stéphane Bouquet’s The Next Loves, French poetic tradition meets the New York School poets in a unique take on homosexuality, desire, loneliness, and love in an era of global inequality and fundamental precarity. Bouquet’s work delicately carves out space for passages from I to you to the collective we.
This brilliant collection unites technologies ancient and new—cruising, Facebook, Grindr, the sonnet—to make poems of indefatigable sweetness, freshness, and insight. Stéphane Bouquet writes like the angelic offspring of Frank O’Hara and Sandra Penna, and some of his poems, like the breathtaking ‘Light of the Fig,’ have already installed themselves among my canon of astonishments.
This collection of rueful, frank, breezily wanton love poems by a notable contemporary French poet has almost none of the hiccups and irregularities one expects from a translated work. (The original French isn’t provided, so it’s unclear what liberties Turner is taking, but whatever they are, she should keep taking them.)