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From poet Chantal Neveu, author of the award-winning collection This Radiant Life, comes a book-length poem that plunges us more deeply into the notion of the idyll and into the polyhedric structure of love.
you demonstrates with exceptional beauty how in the interval between words or verses, language can glimmer, absorb, and refract the changing realities and attractions of an all too human relationship.
Personal autonomy and the formation of "self" are nourished here by multiples--I, you, s/he. The voice in you reclaims life from change and time and affirms it anew.
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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