Negativity's Kiss

Negativity's Kiss is a noir poem, with characters and a story, violence, cops, everything one likes about the crime novel, minus its robotic, skippable detail. Plus language that rocks. However the poet doesn't know how to be straight enough to just do it-tone and genre-so this is pretty crooked. Satirical and feral, written at the time of Hurricane Katrina. The world of the poem is an international city that slides- everything slides-between being like Paris and being like New York.
But maybe it's more like Gotham City, where everyone knows everyone, and even a poet can be in the media spotlight, if someone tries to kill her.

Cette épopée féminine emprunte ses circonstances au polar pour mieux présenter, comme au terme de tout un cheminement d'écrivaine, les traits de ce visage que nous tend, aujourd'hui, la poésie. Traduction française de l'américain paraissant en même...