French Lessons - Softcover

Hatcher, Roberta

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1635340047 ISBN 13: 9781635340044

Verlag: Finishing Line Press, 2016

Inhaltsangabe

This collection, the author’s first, takes slippages in language as a starting point to explore gaps within the self, between the self and the world of others and everyday objects, as well as faultlines within the body politic. The encounter with a foreign tongue becomes an occasion for both loss of self and opening into otherness; the attempt to gain a hold on things by writing them down proves ominously fleeting. At turns playful and sober, French Lessons does not bring us Paris cityscapes or villages in Provence, but rather meditates on the lingering power of the foreign to challenge and transform the familiar.

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Roberta Hatcher's poetry has appeared in St. Petersburg Review, Main Street Rag, Comstock Review and The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, among others. She was a finalist for the Patricia Dobler Poetry Award and the Arkadii Dragomoshchenko Prize for innovative use of language in poetry. Her poem "French Lesson #3" was nominated for Best New Poets 2014. She holds a Ph.D. in French from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and has taught French language and francophone postcolonial studies at several universities. She has also worked variously as a bartender, waitress, forestry camp worker, cook, au pair, student tour operator and ESL tutor. She currently makes her home in Pittsburgh, PA.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Finishing Line Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2016
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1635340047
• ISBN 13: 9781635340044
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 36
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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