The unlikeness of things / by Virginie Poitrasson ; translated by Michelle Noteboom.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Poitrasson, Virginie, 1975- author.

Contributor:

Noteboom, Michelle, translator.

Standardized Title:

Pas-comme-si des choses. English

Language:

English

French

Genre:

poetry.

Poetry

Poetry.

Physical Description:

137 pages ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

Brooklyn, NY : Litmus Press ; Seattle, WA : Asterism Books, [2025]

Summary:

"Virginie Poitrasson's debut poetry collection in English, The Unlikeness of Things, opens onto a stark, startling phenomenological world in which the ordinary objects of everyday life participate fully in the ongoing formation and deformation of the self and psyche, and the body merges with its domestic surroundings, such that "fingers stiffen like wood" and a cup of tea is "steeped in... thoughts, traces of memories and halftone images." In Michelle Noteboom's deft translation, Poitrasson's uncanny, animate world comes to life in a subtly defamiliarized English, as what's unalike flickers into likeness and back again. "My body is no longer a border," writes Poitrasson; "I pour into a room.""-- Provided by publisher.

Notes:

"First published as Le Pas-comme-si des choses ... by Éditions de L'Attente, France, 2018"--Title page verso.

ISBN:

9781933959726

193395972X

OCLC:

1503540024

Publisher Number:

90105157608