[09/15/26] Brun, Annie Le: Lunar Ring Finger

Black Sun Lit, paperback

Translated by Marine Cornuet

Publication Date: September 15, 2026

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Lunar Ring Finger is a festival of seismic language that beckons the unbound horizon of imagination against the calamitous azure of a hyper-mediated world. In her final standalone book of poetry, and here her first to be translated into English, Annie Le Brun erodes the petrification of haunting catastrophe with lovestruck insurgency and supple shifts of perception: revealing the circumstance of our political and environmental annihilation not as the anxious surrender of life but the urgent impetus to recuperate those inner forces of nature by which it is most yearningly, eruptively lived. Resuscitating the primordial imperative of French Surrealism, Lunar Ring Finger inhabits the psychic forests of childhood—in “the absence of any known restrictions,” as André Breton writes—and manifests a possible future out of visceral marvelousness. Translated by Marine Cornuet and accompanied with prefatory remarks from renowned scholar Mary Ann Caws, this edition also includes the collaborative drawings by Toyen originally paired in the Éditions Maintenant publication.