Cosmic Sadness by Jean Portante, translated by Zoe Skoulding Supriya Kaur Dhaliwal ” No one said he

”  No one said he couldn’t take notes

He has since published a later collection

There is an arrangement here

Tropes of the ‘good girl’

Cosmic Sadness by Jean Portante, translated by Zoe Skoulding Supriya Kaur Dhaliwal ” No one said heCosmic 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.