Yo-Yo Heart by Laura Doyle Péan trans. Stuart Bell
PBS Translation Choice Winter 2022
Adam ORiordan the quiddity of the everyday

the quiddity of the everyday

exposes the presumptive politics behind writing and readership: the notion that men invent while women reflect

history is what we call / what might have happened differently / and didn'tIt is the decade of centuries

Within its history

if we have the body

Yo-Yo Heart by Laura Doyle Péan trans. Stuart Bell<br><b>PBS Translation Choice Winter 2022</br> Adam ORiordan the quiddity of the everydayTwo female lovers separate. Alone in her apartment, surrounded by books and memories, the narrator learns to heal her wounds as the days pass by. Written in the form of a personal diary, this collection of poems is made up of five parts, each a rite of passage, navigating the many stages of grief. Laura Doyle Pan (they them) is a communication & cinema graduate, McGill Law & Gender Studies student, poet and activist. The 22 year old Haitian Quebecois