"The Price of Survival in Judas Goat"
"One wonders if these are the only options in our era: are we the Judas goat, the sheep, or both? The sacrificed or the betrayer? And does oblivion, willful or otherwise, absolve us of our actions? Do these roles—forced upon us literally or figuratively—make us unable to trust in our instincts?"
via THE CHICAGO REVIEW OF BOOKS |
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What Sparks Poetry:
Andrew Zawacki on Sébastien Smirou's "The Lion"
"The orthodox part of the evening once completed, we turned to our current project—very much under construction—namely, the English translation of Sébastien’s sophomore book, a bestiary titled Beau voir....The plan was Sébastien’s, inspired tangentially by the so-called 'torture test' that Olivier Cadiot and Pierre Alferi had devised, which involved translating Robert Duncan’s falconer-mother back and forth between English and French, so the original would bloom anew through its successive degradations." |
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