Gestuary

Sylvie Kandé (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

112 Seiten

2026
Seagull Books London Ltd (Verlag)
9781803096087 (ISBN)

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A richly imagined, physically charged poetry collection in which history, myth, and protest are transformed into lyrical gestures.

Sylvie Kandé’s Gestuary offers a collection of gestures—of death and life, of tenderness and brutality—that fractures the flow of time. Senegalese riflemen from World War I are juxtaposed with migrants at borders who sew their lips shut in protest over immigration policies. In dream-like sequences, the dead refuse to stay underground and “push against the fence / that swings between our realm and theirs.” Inspired by unexpected sources, including jazz, sculpture, the legacy of the slave trade, proverbs, and elements of Diola culture, Kandé’s poems are rich in musicality and sophisticated syntax, rendered into a lyrical and luminous English by Nancy Naomi Carlson.

Born in Paris to a French mother and a Senegalese father, Sylvie Kandé is the author of three acclaimed poetry collections. Nancy Naomi Carlson is a poet and translator whose translation of Khal Torabully’s Cargo Hold of Stars: Coolitude won the Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize.

Translator’s Foreword
Of Air and Water
1.Call of Air
2.Gull/Mute
3.Deposits & Withdrawals
4.Sugarcane
5.Waltz of Stone
6.September’s Bird
7.Survival According to Alice
8.Genocide
9.Genealogy
10.On the Whole…
11.Visitation
12.Scraps of a Portrait
13.News by Hand
Striking Hard
1.The Hot Iron Strikes
2.The Final Stroke
3.Awe-Struck
4.Striking a Pose
Digging
1.Rite of Passage
2.Vahine
3.Prayer
4.Departed Night Butterfly of Mine
5.[Grave]s[tone] for Noguchi
The Warring Dead
1.Mobilized
2.The Warring Dead I
3.The Warring Dead II
Better Left Unsaid
1.Winnowing
2.The Egg and the Stone
3.On the “Nine Slaves” Altarpiece
4.Better Left Unsaid
5.Pharaoh Queen
6.Roaming Soul
What Speaking Intends to Say
1.Colophon I
2.Colophon II
Coda

Erscheint lt. Verlag	8.3.2026
Reihe/Serie	The Africa List
Übersetzer	Nancy Naomi Carlson
Verlagsort	Greenford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	159 x 235 mm
Gewicht	454 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Lyrik / Gedichte
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Makrosoziologie
ISBN-13	9781803096087 / 9781803096087
Zustand	Neuware