In these powerful poems, the nettle sting, the splinter, the milk tooth and the love bite, the acts of translation, are borderline experiences that become sacramental, while physical states-myopia, childbirth, speed, and prostration-create their own knowledge, as vital as what the eye takes in and the heart grieves over. This is a book open to the shocks and pleasures of seeing and daily life, driven by a fascination with the shifting and precarious boundaries between self and world.
