LEX ICON Conflicted Copy "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

Voor Jack Spicer gaat het in poëzie niet om de expressie van een individu of de overdracht van een ervaring – in poëzie moet niets worden uitgedrukt

a composite image of love takes form

Ward often betrays the procedural forms he tries to impose on his labyrinthine ruminations in order to remain faithfully engaged to the traditional task of the post-Romantic poet

Victoria Chang is at her best

LEX ICON Conflicted Copy "Warsh's translation of Desnos's dream-chant-poem-cloudSalette Tavares For the first time appearing in English translation, the poems in LEX ICON present everyday objects through the lens of modern art and abstraction. The habitual uses of objects that these poems study point to the inherent philosophical content of the human capacity to produce, or poiesis. Much as abstraction in its representation of things as pictorial patterns at times distills the geometrical shape of an object by shedding its