Genre: Translation

The Things We Name

Translated by Riley Donlon from Simon Brown • Issue 40 <a href="http://carte-blanche.org/issues/issue-40/">Winter 2021</a> <a href="http://carte-blanche.org/issues/issue-40"><img class="aligncenter wp-image-12976 size-full" src="http://carte-blanche.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/1.png" alt="1" width="1400" height="500" /></a>

You expand
beyond the limits of your body.
No clarity,
no time. Read more →

Made-Up

Excerpts translated by Alex Manley from Daphné B. • Issue 40 <a href="http://carte-blanche.org/issues/issue-40/">Winter 2021</a> <a href="http://carte-blanche.org/issues/issue-40"><img class="aligncenter wp-image-12976 size-full" src="http://carte-blanche.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/1.png" alt="1" width="1400" height="500" /></a>

Schmoney.

The anarchist pop star had a baby with the son of a billionaire. It’s a little green-grey wad of cash and guns. Proof, for those who needed it, that she hadn’t really meant the things she’d said.

I think about the pop star’s baby with the billion-heir often. Read more →

If You Would See

Translated by Philip Styrt from Pierre de Ronsard • Issue 40 <a href="http://carte-blanche.org/issues/issue-40/">Winter 2021</a> <a href="http://carte-blanche.org/issues/issue-40"><img class="aligncenter wp-image-12976 size-full" src="http://carte-blanche.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/1.png" alt="1" width="1400" height="500" /></a>

If you would like to see Love beating me,
How I’m attacked, how he’s my conqueror,
How he can burn, and freeze my heart yet more,
How from my shame he takes his majesty: Read more →