a great shaking Stephen Watts "Warsh's translation of Desnos's dream-chant-poem-cloud

"Warsh's translation of Desnos's dream-chant-poem-cloud testifies to translation as a mode of reading: we can only translate what we can read

through the 20th-century traditions of Britain and America and beyond the English language

a field on fire

Composed at the rosy-fingered dawn of world literature almost three millennia ago

a great shaking Stephen Watts "Warsh's translation of Desnos's dream-chant-poem-cloudEdwina Attlee Edwina Attlees debut collection, a great shaking, is a triptych of worksa gathering of songs, days, and hoursthat detail the ways in which a table can be overturned, an idea can be tilled, an hour can turn from something germinal to a quiet, static object of attention.