From the native of Grand Rapids, Michigan (1961), with piercing blue eyes, we knew the nine novels published by Christian Bourgois between 1999
(A Suspicious River)
and 2013
(Winter Spirit).
Stories about an ideal American society (cities, clean neighborhoods, flourishing families, healthy students, etc.) that she makes fascinating by showing behind the scenes, the hidden face, cracked, horrific.
It was not known that, years before the publication of her first novel, this teacher at the University of Ann Arbor had written two collections of poems and that seven more would follow!
Until this “personal anthology” published in the United States in 2017 under the title
Where Now
, today translated into French at Gallimard by Sylvie Doizelet under the title
Where are they now
.
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Laura Kasishke herself chose the poems for this anthology at the rate of ten per published collection.
Or 380 pages divided into eleven sections.
Reading the whole thing is an amazing experience.
If she quotes
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