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Translated by Marty Hiatt. Lauded French poet Nathalie Quintane's TOMATOES, written at the height of the infamous Tarnac affair, is a book of integrated critique, a form a literary non-fiction that prefers anecdote to theory. In TOMATOES, it turns out that the banalities of municipal politics, book festivals and vegetable gardening are saturated with all the latest advances in state repression. Quintane's irony makes demands, puts something at stake, attempts to couple more intimately an intention in the form of a sentence and an intention in the form of a life. And the intentions are insurrectionary, anti-capitalist, and poetic. Translator Marty Hiatt couples the book with Quintane's essay WHY DOESNT THE FAR LEFT READ LITERATURE?--a question Juliana Spahr, in her foreword wondering what American literature means anymore, contextualizes thus: something that appears to be about being French but is also about being American and yet is not global. That something is finally just the trade in letters made to console when things get tricky, irritating, unbearable. For Anglophone readers, this book offers a challenge, where the only truly interesting books are the ones the police read? And it sends sales figures through the roof! But what to do with the desire to produce truth, for real? Poetry. Literary Nonfiction.

About the Author :
Nathalie Quintane was born in Paris in 1964 and is the author of over twenty books of experimental poetry and genre-defying prose. She famously wrote a book about a shoe, and ran a parody literary journal in the 1990s with Christophe Tarkos and Stéphane Bérard. In recent years (beginning with TOMATOES in 2009), her work has come to directly address particular political issues, including the plight of refugees in Europe, the gilets jaunes and Nuit debout movements, the Front nationale, and France's colonial legacies. Keenly aware of how aesthetics, language, and politics are related, she critiques political and critical languages and practices her own alternatives. Her style is incisive and droll, using wordplay to make cutting political arguments, and her texts have a light and vital energy that likely comes from her quasi-improvised approach to composition. Quintane is considered one of the major experimental poets of her generation; TOMATOES is only her second book-length work available in English, after Cynthia Hogue and Sylvain Gallais's translation of JOAM DARC (Fence Books/La Presse, 2017).


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781734317671
  • Publisher: Kenning Editions
  • Publisher Imprint: Kenning Editions
  • Height: 212 mm
  • No of Pages: 112
  • Spine Width: 10 mm
  • Width: 138 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1734317671
  • Publisher Date: 01 Feb 2022
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 113 gr


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