a great shaking Stephen Watts Composed at the rosy-fingered dawn

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

"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

a field on fire

translation practices

A compilation of modernity’s conditions needs to include insomnia

a great shaking Stephen Watts Composed at the rosy-fingered dawnEdwina 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.