Searing in its energies and mysterious in its icy depths Love is Colder than the Lake is a tourdeforce of the experimental French poet Liliane Giraudons power and rangeLove is Colder than the Lakeamp160weaves together stories dreamed and experienced fragments of autobiographical trauma and scraps of political and sexual violence to create an alchemical and incantatory texture that is all Giraudonamp8217s own In its feminist attention and allusive stylistic registers Love is Colder than The Lake claims a unique position among contemporary French literature The heroes or antiheroes in this collection include Rainer Werner Fassbinder Lorine Niedecker Emma Goldman Chantal Akerman the Marquis de Sade and the unnamed lake itself Giraudonamp8217s writing editing and visual work have been influential in France for decades and Englishspeaking readers will thrill to this challenging important voice
