Soul House
ISBN-13: 9781954218178
Author(s): Mireille Gansel
Subjects: Poetry
Publisher: World Poetry Books
Publisher Imprint: World Poetry Books
Publication Date: 23-11-2023
Format: Paperback / softback
Availability: In stock
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About the book
In the first of her poetry books 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 53 prose poems with an epigraph from Gaston Bachelard: 'against all odds, the house invites us to say: I will be a citizen of the world despite the world.' In these war-torn days of refugees fleeing to Europe, Gansel strives to describe what we have in common, creating a crossroads of people, places, and languages she has loved. For Gansel, a poet rebuilding her 'soul house,' every word is a building block. At the same time that she welcomes the stranger to her lost house, poetry is her weapon -- 'these migrant poems from all languages, these smuggled words that no border can stop' -- with which to fight persecution and exile. Sophie Ehrsam wrote, 'The 'soul house' is anything that harbors a glimmer, a hope, including an open door or an outstretched hand.'