Voice of the Two Shores by Agnès Agboton trans. by Laurence Schimel
PBS TRANSLATION CHOICE SPRING 2023 Judith Kazantzis Cliff Yates

Cliff Yates

] without losing sensuality's boom boom

Given only a modicum of imagination and lack of object permanence we might have found something poignant in the last messages from the Mars Rovers

the most recent of which are Weighing the Present (smith|doorstop

before the knowledge or accumulation of loss

Voice of the Two Shores by Agnès Agboton trans. by Laurence Schimel <br><b>PBS TRANSLATION CHOICE SPRING 2023 <b> Judith Kazantzis Cliff YatesDrawn from Agnes Agboton's two Spanish collections in a single volume for the first time ever, Voice of the Two Shores was originally written in Gun, a language of Benin, the musicality of which is faithfully reproduced through the net of two translations. Many of the poems are rooted in Benin, while others confront the absence of the living testimonies of that world and its traditions. Yet the poems are redolent of love of the poet's beloved, and of