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Love Is Colder Than the Lake

Liliane Giraudon
Barcode 9781643621975
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Release Date: 29/02/2024

Genre: Poetry & Drama
Translator: Sarah Riggs, Lindsay Turner
Label: Nightboat Books
Contributors: Sarah Riggs (Translated by), Lindsay Turner (Translated by)
Language: English
Publisher: Nightboat Books

Searing in its energies and mysterious in its icy depths, Love is Colder than the Lake is a tour-de-force of the experimental French poet Liliane Giraudon’s power and range.

Love is Colder than the Lake weaves together stories dreamed and experienced, fragments of autobiographical trauma, and scraps of political and sexual violence to create an alchemical and incantatory texture that is all Giraudon’s own. In its feminist attention and allusive stylistic registers, Love is Colder than The Lake claims a unique position among contemporary French literature. The heroes (or anti-heroes) in this collection include Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Lorine Niedecker, Emma Goldman, Chantal Akerman, the Marquis de Sade, and the unnamed lake itself. Giraudon’s writing, editing, and visual work have been influential in France for decades, and English-speaking readers will thrill to this challenging, important voice.

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