A Spectacular Influence
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Because I have no voice anymore what I say has no air. Did I strangle you? I killed you to let the wind in.
Chantal Neveu's A Spectacular Influence inclines bodies and worlds, registering their turn as atomized events. This semantic partition distributed into four parts that decline the body's perplexity before the real, inscribes an intimate range of material probabilities and improbabilities.
Written in spare lines and minimalist language, A Spectacular Influence attends to the sensation of motional inertia and celebrates the relational in the human collective experience.
In a graceful, rich translation by acclaimed author and translator Nathanaïl, A Spectacular Influence confirms Neveu's poetic range and extends the elegant musicality of her earlier choreographic poem, Coit.
Chantal Neveu
Chantal Neveu is a writer and an interdisciplinary artist. She is the author of the books Une Spectaculaire influence (2010), COÏT (2010; translated into English by Angela Carr and published by BookThug in 2012), and mentale (2008). Her interdisciplinary textual projects include Èdres followed by Èdres Dehors (2005) and Je suis venue faire l'amour, among others. A SPECTACULAR INFLUENCE, translated by Nathanaël, is Neveu's second book published by BookThug. She lives in Montreal.
The (self-) translating author of more than twenty books, Nathanaël writes in English and in French. Her recent works include Sotto l'immagine (2014), SISYPHUS, OUTDONE, THEATRES OF THE CATASTROPHAL (2012) and ASCLEPIAS: THE MILKWEEDS (2015). Nathanaël's extrinsic translations include works by Danielle Collobert, Édouard Glissant, Hervé Guibert, Catherine Mavrikakis, and Hilda Hilst (the latter in collaboration with Rachel Gontijo Araújo). Nathanaël lives in Chicago.
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