The Next Loves

LONGLISTED for the 2020 NATIONAL TRANSLATION AWARD IN POETRY FINALIST for the BEST TRANSLATED BOOK AWARD In Stéphane Bouquet’s The Next Loves, French poetic tradition meets the New York School poets in a unique take on homosexuality, desire, loneliness, and love in an era of global inequality and fundamental precarity. Bouquet’s work delicately carves out space for passages from I to you to the collective we.