Piecing Together the Fragments: Translating Classical Verse
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The Vitalist Sees the Signs by GB Clarkson Shearsman Piecing Together the Fragments: TranslatingThe Vitalist Sees the Signs is a sly, searing, and spectacularly inventive sequence from GB Clarkson, where each poem casts its eye on the absurd, the divine, and the intimately strange. The Vitalist, an electrified poetic persona, moves through funeral parlours, bogs of misogyny, literary sojourns with George Eliot and John Donne, and surreal maritime metaphysics, collecting grief, insight, and an ever mutating philosophy of survival. With fierce