The Vitals Toxicon and Arachne ” In this first English

” In this first English edition

Written in iambic pentameter verse and a vivid

to call our attention to literary acts—from finding the right desk to getting lost at logic gates—yet all the while following the mental circuitry of dismantling and re-assembling a poetic language

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The ever-deferred answer to the question “what do you want

The Vitals Toxicon and Arachne ” In this first EnglishMarie de Quatrebarbes (trans. Aiden Farrell) Acclaimed French poet Marie de Quatrebarbes's debut in English translation is an elegiac long poem in the form of a fragmentary journal that tracks the loss of a loved one. As if the relic of a long forgotten history, The Vitals ghosts through five successive months, measuring time through the vacillations of a bereaved consciousness. An estranged voice staggers through glimpses of childhood, domesticity,