Forlorn Light by Nazifa Islam PBS Recommended Translation 'Small Hands'

'Small Hands'

It seeks new expressions of desire and modes of breath

In the century-and-a-half since Charles Baudelaire

Taylor’s literary culture is basic and concrete

Forlorn Light by Nazifa Islam PBS Recommended Translation 'Small Hands'To write these poems, I select a paragraph from a Woolf novelThe Waves or Mrs. Dallowayand only use the words from that paragraph to create a poem. I essentially write poems while doing a word search using Virginia Woolf as source material. I dont allow myself to repeat words, add words, or edit the language for tense or any other consideration. These poems are simultaneously defined by both Woolfs choices with language as well as my own. They feel