LEGAL, Élise
Stray Dog

“Swaying between French and English, Élise Legal’s poetry summons a word: sentence. If poetry is about looking for a sentence, its syntax, its vocabulary, its rhythm, Légal is looking for one with her teeth bared. Her writing relies on another meaning, for in both French and English, sentence also means judgement. With these clear-cut sentences her poetry tugs at the ways language makes us, the way capitalism makes language, the alliances we build or unbuild while we speak and write.”
—Elsa Boyer

Published by Ma Bibliothèque, 2021
Literature