Guest Essays
JAKE GOLDWASSER on the Alchemy of Translation
As far as endeavors go, translation has all of the perils one might fear for and virtually none of the guardrails one might hope for. Reasonable activities—baking a blueberry pie, say—have achievable success criteria and known dangers. You know a good final product when you
BIANCA STONE on Poetry, Dark Matter & Psychotherapy
For the poem to fully exist on the page, it takes full involvement with another’s psyche. The breath of the poem embodies the original writer, in air and nerve. Poetry is a medium of participation, what is called a dyad. It highlights our embedded unconscious