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Foreign Body (Kindle)
Catherine Lalonde and Nora Alleyn (Translator)
Guernica Editions, Fall 2011
Kindle (eBook)
ISBN13: 9781550713770
ISBN10: 1550713779
English
Translated from the French
$7.95 Canada, $7.95 US
The woman speaking in these poems is speaking of the body. Though she has a body with a head, she has a head that fails to understand her body. She is a woman whose head understands a language, but one not shared by the man she loves or wants to love. Theirs is a love-hate story between two foreign tongues that have nothing in common but the flesh. A tale of bodily couplings outside language, outside the world, and out of time; linguistically, a tale of madness. Sex has shattered her sentences.
Write, whores! Write, mothers! Write, you victims of rape! Write, the pilferers and the pilfered! Let words fill up the spaces of women's ancestral silence, of women's cosmic silence. Catherine Lalonde's driven, drunken poetic utterance lends a voice to dark realms that have been wordless since time immemorial.
Nancy Huston
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