Voice of the Two Shores by Agnès Agboton trans. by Laurence Schimel
PBS TRANSLATION CHOICE SPRING 2023 Judith Kazantzis film-maker

film-maker

on the day when his plane is supposed to land

before the knowledge or accumulation of loss

while refusing to acknowledge the roll racism plays in the perception and treatment of white working-class others

] without losing sensuality's boom boom

Voice of the Two Shores by Agnès Agboton trans. by Laurence Schimel <br><b>PBS TRANSLATION CHOICE SPRING 2023 <b> Judith Kazantzis film-makerDrawn from Agnes Agboton's two Spanish collections in a single volume for the first time ever, Voice of the Two Shores was originally written in Gun, a language of Benin, the musicality of which is faithfully reproduced through the net of two translations. Many of the poems are rooted in Benin, while others confront the absence of the living testimonies of that world and its traditions. Yet the poems are redolent of love of the poet's beloved, and of