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Sense of an Ending

Whether that nation can long endure

Oil and Holy Water

Bearing the cross of a natural resource

Slouching toward Democracy

Where have all the wise men gone?

Giovanna Riccio

Giovanna Riccio has published three books of poetry, including Plastic’s Republic.

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Tongue and Groove

On language and translation January | February 2026
In her essay “Theorizing Feminist Discourse/Translation,” from 1989, the Canadian critic Barbara Godard reframed translation as a feminist intervention into society’s dominant discourses. With The Translating Subject, Melissa Tanti expands on this idea as she examines how a “translating subject” emerges from the space where “languages encounter each other.” Analyzing works by the Montreal writers Erín Moure and Nicole Brossard along with the American punk virtuoso Kathy…