In an anthology bringing together the poems of some thirty authors from around the world, Sylvie Brunet pays tribute to women whose work is familiar to us, and highlights unknown poetesses, some of whom have never been translated into French. .
It’s a book full of colors, the colors of the words. Those of about thirty poetesses. Some of them are known as the two Emilys, Brontë the Englishwoman or Dickinson the American. Others are very old like the great Arab poetess Al-Khansa, others have made themselves known on Instagram like the Canadian Rupi Kaur. Some of their texts are very difficult to find, others have never been translated into French. Immersed today in feminine poetry. From the Greek Sappho to the American Amanda Gorman via the Hindu Mirabai, the Russian Marina Tsvetaïeva, the Malian Fatoumata Keita or the Ukrainian Ella Yevtuchenko, let’s discover this anthology of poetesses from around the world by Sylvie Brunet.
Writer and translator, Sylvie Brunet is the author of novels and books on language. She publishes A hasanthology of poetesses around the worldpublished by First.
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