Cosmic Sadness by Jean Portante, translated by Zoe Skoulding Supriya Kaur Dhaliwal There is an arrangement here

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Cosmic Sadness by Jean Portante, translated by Zoe Skoulding Supriya Kaur Dhaliwal There is an arrangement hereCosmic Sadness is a glittering, grief struck astronomy of the everyday, in which kitchens, scaffolding, train stations and gardens tilt slowly into interstellar space. In Jean Portante's long, linked sequences, memory and matter are always in motion: roses drift above language, migratory birds arrive with their beaks nailed shut, drawers open on months, planets and old parents, while the sky behaves like a flooded cellar or a cracked cinema screen.