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Emily Banks

Emily Banks is the author of Mother Water (Lynx House Press, 2020). Her poems and essays have appeared or are forthcoming in Heavy Feather Review, 32 Poems, The Rumpus, New South, Cortland Review, Superstition Review, and other journals. She received her MFA from the University of Maryland and currently lives in Atlanta, where she is a doctoral candidate at Emory University.

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Against Translation and the Ethics of Compassion

By Emily Banks | October 9, 2020

“Against Translation” is a model for dwelling in the unknowable space of compassion.

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