
Night Sky with Exit Wounds: Ocean Vuong and Max Porter
London Review Bookshop Podcast
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The Poetic Line Resists Amputation
I don't know what it feels like to write in this moment now that everything is slightly different but the wrote the words was written before I could fathom the space they have an unflinching quality to them which reminds me of telemachus as the figure anyway. The way you turn the eye of the book into multiple different eyes and the father of the figures multiple different eyes feels like the living breathing motion of the oral tradition passing from one tradition to another. It feels like translation alive on the page you you mentioned Mo in and I've been reading Mo in almost religiously.
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