Soul House poetry English

Soul House poetry EnglishMireille Gansel, translation Joan Seliger Sidney In the first book of her poetry to appear in English, acclaimed French Jewish poet, translator, and translation theorist Mireille Gansel crisscrosses time and extends hospitality to exiled poets and peoples in her quest to recreate a lost literary and spiritual home. Gansel opens this meditative volume of prose poems with an epigraph from Gaston Bachelard: 'against all odds, the house invites us to say:

Stacy Doris

Lucía Hinojosa Gaxiola

to the great wealth of material written internationally since 2000

from women’s voices “hibernating in documents

to produce textual and sonic arrangements akin to Rachel’s floral bouquets

the poems sprout and grow as though compelled

I Must Be Living Twice is a prism refracting a radical world and a compelling life

and shifting identity

They are experiments in making a new language where the counterexample—*he had had gone

is a work for our times and a question for our age: it is a handbook for all those willing to reimagine prescriptive notions of identity and selfhood

tot de dichter die iets zinvols probeert aan te vangen met een oorlog

Even as CUNT NORTON dismembers the history of English poetry