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Sébastien Smirou is the author of three poetry volumes—Un temps pour s’étreindre, Beau voir, and Mon Laurent—as well as a recent prose meditation, Un temps pour se séparer : notes sur Robert Capa. A psychoanalyst, he has translated two psychoanalytica
I’ve been talking about by my body intact—which seems to raise
doubts in jellyfish form—by a sound so dully muffled
my tortoise makes upon crashing down by the flies
that bug vacationers duped by so much ado about little remains (to be seen).
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