Poetry. Translated from the French by Kathleen McGookey. WE'LL SEE,
originally published in France in 1995 as On verra bien by le de
bleu, is Georges L. Godeau's first book translated into English.
This is a collection of ninety brief prose poems, most of which
focus on ordinary people and events. Godeau's prose poems are
disarmingly and deceptively simple, yet resonate with each other.
Godeau has said, "A poem should not last longer than its emotion."
Still, his prose poems capture, almost photographically, moments of
everyday life. Jacques Reda has said that Godeau's poetry is poetry
of "what happens when nothing happens." In his account of a day
spent with Godeau, Xavier Person observed that his poems were a lot
like his modest house in Magne, France--a little cold, excessively
clean, very tidy, and without a lot of furniture--poems that
contained only the most straightforward and impassioned
elements."In Georges Godeau's WE'LL SEE, the ordinary, quotidian
details of everyday life reveal the miraculous lurking there, and
each poem becomes a window on the absolute. These poems are quiet,
efficient, but unsettling in their deep resonances. Although little
happens in Godeau's poems, each is filled with lucent, telling
particulars. His poems, so calm on the surface, accrue enormous
power. Like frames in a movie, each poem appears almost static, but
in congress, they span immense psychic and spiritual geographies.
Godeau exposes a world in which the marvelous is all around us, a
world in which 'Providence has blue eyes.' Godeau's terse prose
poems are the perfect vehicle for his modest, unassuming voice, and
Kathleen McGookey has rendered Godeau's laconic utterances in
colloquial American English that is true to the original, and
absolutely convincing in translation."--Gary Young
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