No way in the skin without this bloody embrace / Jean d'Amérique ; translated from the French by Conor Bracken.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Amérique, Jean d', 1994- author.

Contributor:

Ugly Duckling Presse, publisher.

McNaughton & Gunn (Firm), printer.

Bracken, Conor, translator.

Standardized Title:

Nul chemin dans la peau que saignante étreinte. English

Language:

English

French

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

119 pages ; 18 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Distribution:

Berkeley, California : SPD/Small Press Distribution ; Newcastle upon Tyne : Inpress Books

Manufacture:

[Saline, Michigan] : McNaughton & Gunn

Place of Publication:

Brooklyn, NY : Ugly Duckling Presse, 2022.

Language Note:

In the original French and English translation on facing pages.

Biography/History:

"Born in Haiti in 1994, Jean D'Am̌rique is a poet, playwright, and novelist. He splits his time between Paris, Brussels, and Port-au-Prince. He has published several collections of poetry: Petite fleur du ghetto (Atelier Jeudi Soir), recipient of a special mention from the Prix Reň Philocẗte; Nul chemin dans la peau que saignante ̌treinte (Cheyne), Prix de Pǒsie de la Vocation; and Atelier du silence (Cheyne). Author of several plays, he has received the Prix Jean-Jacques Lerrant des Jourňes de Lyon des Auteurs de Tȟ́tre for Catȟdrale des cochons (̌ditions Tȟ́trales). His first novel, Soleil ̉ coudre, was published by Actes Sud in 2021."--Publisher's website, viewed November 9, 2022.

"Conor Bracken is the author of Henry Kissinger, Mon Amour (Bull City Press) and The Enemy of My Enemy is Me (forthcoming from Diode Editions). He is also the translator of Mohammed Kha̐r-Eddine's Scorpionic Sun (CSU Poetry Center). His work has earned fellowships from Bread Loaf, the Community of Writers, the Frost Place, Inprint, and the Sewanee Writers' Conference, and has appeared in places like BOMB, jubilat, New England Review, The New Yorker, and Ploughshares, among others. He lives in Ohio."--Publisher's website, viewed November 9, 2022.

Summary:

"In Jean D'Am̌rique's book-length poem, each page is as brief as a hurricane's eye, glimpsing the eerie territory his speaker traverses like an apocalyptic fĺneur. His 'body / a devastation inventory,' his stroll a 'walk / to curse the sidewalks,' he peers into the ruins--left by the winds of colonialism, capitalism, war, and natural disaster--and sees a 'crop of eyes' peering back. What others dismiss as broken, for D'Am̌rique, is a mirror in shards, 'drinking up all the world's rot / then spilling it all out in diamantine rays.' The first of his books to appear in English, this work reclaims the visceral potency of poetry--it is food, it is 'collars of blood,' it is a garment sewn with 'a thread of sobs.'"--Publisher's website, viewed November 9, 2022.

Notes:

Poems.

"Published with the kind permission of Cheyne ̌diteur. Originally published as Nul chemin dans la peau que saignante étreinte by Cheyne ̌diteur, 2017. Design and typesetting by Isley Jean-Pierre and wrongfoot. The type is Arno Pro and Warnock Pro. Books printed offset and bound at McNaughton & Gunn. Covers printed letterpress at Ugly Duckling Presse."--Colophon.

Contains:

contains: Amérique, Jean d', 1994- Nul chemin dans la peau que saignante étreinte.

contains: Amérique, Jean d', 1994- Nul chemin dans la peau que saignante étreinte. English.

ISBN:

9781946433947

1946433942

OCLC:

1350548765

Publisher Number:

99993229325