Clarice The Visitor

In this cahier, through two sequences of poems, American poet Idra Novey explores several notions of translation. In the first sequence, "Letters to Clarice," she writes from her experience of recently translating work by the Brazilian novelist Clarice Lispector, sending her chosen author poems in the form of letters. In the second sequence, "Regarding Marmalade, Cognates, and Visitors," she discovers in what way translating relates to the activity of hosting visitors, most important of whom is her new-born son. Idra Novey's texts are complemented by images by the artist Erica Baum - images of books that seem both to invite and resist attempts to read them.