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The Vitals

ISBN-13: 9781954218321

Author(s): Marie de Quatrebarbes

Subjects: Poetry - Individual Poets

Publisher: World Poetry Books

Publisher Imprint: World Poetry Books

Publication Date: 15-05-2025

Format: Paperback / softback

Availability: In stock

£18.99

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About the book

Acclaimed French poet Marie de Quatrebarbes' debut in English translation is an elegiac long poem in the form of a fragmentary journal that tracks the loss of a loved one. As if the relic of a long-forgotten history, The Vitals ghosts through five successive months, measuring time through the vacillations of a bereaved consciousness. An estranged voice staggers through glimpses of childhood, domesticity, conversations lost and found, and memories reverberating into language. These elliptical prose vignettes ask questions about family, survival, and of the shared experience of grief and longing. Through a documentary impulse, de Quatrebarbes' poem persists suspended in the space left by a sudden disappearance.

The Vitals

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