you by Chantal Neveu, translated by Erín Moure

A book-length poem about the notion and structure of love

Image | you by Chantal Neveu, translated by Erín Moure

Caption: (Book*hug Press)

you demonstrates with exceptional beauty how in the interval between words or verses, language can glimmer, absorb, and refract the changing realities and attractions of an all too human relationship.
Personal autonomy and the formation of "self" are nourished here by multiples—I, you, s/he. The voice in you reclaims life from change and time and affirms it anew. (From Book*hug Press)
Chantal Neveu is a Montreal-based author of seven books of poetry. Her book This Radiant Life, also translated by Erín Moure won the 2021 Governor General's Literary Award for Translation and the 2021 Nelson Ball Prize.
Moure is a poet and poetry translator. Her most recent book is Chus Pato's The Face of the Quartzes and her latest poetry book is Theophylline: an aporetic migration via the modernisms of Rukeyser, Bishop, Grimké.