Against Translation Has stock in Germany Drawn from a set of

Drawn from a set of journals written over a four-month period

THE SITUATION AS IT IS** is the story of an architect’s ring binders

but if you get over yourself and leave the house

Felipe Romero Beltrán

despite the battles we may face

Against Translation Has stock in Germany Drawn from a set ofAgainst Translation is a text by American poet Kenneth Goldsmith (born 1961) published in eight volumes English, French, Spanish, German, Chinese, Japanese, Russian and Arabic. The author discusses the impasses and shortcomings of translation and the virtues of an unapologetic linguistic displacement. Translation is the ultimate humanist gesture, he states. Polite and reasonable, it is an overly cautious bridge builder . in the end, it always fails,