Against Translation

“Searing, hauntingly sad, often hilarious, these poems . . . reconnect the circuits of the soul.” —Martha C. Nussbaum, University of Chicago We often ask ourselves what gets lost in translation—not just between languages, but in the everyday trade-offs between what we experience and what we are able to say about it. But the visionary poems of this collection invite us to consider: what is loss , in translation? Writing at the limits of language—where “the signs loosen, fray, and d