A stunning work of prose poetry from award-winning Swiss poet Baptiste Gaillard brilliantly translated by Aditi Machado,* In the Realm of Motes* is a key ecological text that celebrates the infinitesimal and the ephemeral in their entropic yet orchestral movements of aggregation, fragmentation, and mutation. Both Gaillard’s language and what these prose poems point to break apart, absorb, and shape a unique space that is both easily comprehended and entirely strange. At one moment we’re reading about a lake or a forest and the next our deepest meditations and alarms. These short prose poems must be read to understand the lower layer connecting us and our surroundings.
Roof Books
Recueil bilingue, français et anglais, traduction d'*Un domaine des corpuscules* (Hippocampe, 2017)