Awarded the 2025 Stephen Mitchell Translation Prize

 Austere, tender, funny, philosophical, ruthless, self-deprecating, real: Touché contains everything you need for your upcoming travels.
—Eleni Sikelianos

Pascalle Monnier’s exacting study of the power of the infinitive is an endless, almost breathless, catalogue of being, as in, “to” be. As always, Cole Swensen provides us with a clear and stunning translation. —Peter Gizzi

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