POND and speech

and speech

Taking the cleaving mechanism of translation as a point of departure (“ossia” means “or rather” and is used to indicate an alternative way of playing a passage in a musical score)

more and more frequently

This edition is an abridgment of The Complete Poems of Sappho

A Life’s Work: On Becoming a Mother is Rachel Cusk’s funny

POND and speechFrom the press: Immediately upon its publication in Ireland, Claire Louise Bennetts debut began to attract attention well beyond the expectations of the tiny Irish press that published it. A deceptively slender volume, it captures with utterly mesmerizing virtuosity the interior reality of its unnamed protagonist, a young woman living a singular and mostly solitary existence on the outskirts of a small coastal village. Sidestepping the usual