The Present Voice Author|Jodi Melsness […] With compassion and brutal

[…] With compassion and brutal honesty

one of twentieth-century France’s greatest literary critics and Camus’ mentor

After completing a residency in Anatomic Pathology at the University of Missouri he did a Surgical Pathology fellowship at the University of Minnesota

and human rights and healing

The Present Voice Author|Jodi Melsness […] With compassion and brutalIf the voice is present, it can also disappear. Ryoko Sekiguchi's The Present Voice (translated by Lindsay Turner) is a series of poetic meditations on the materiality of the voice. What, Sekiguchi asks, remains of the voice when the person it belongs to is no longer living? Sekiguchi's work extends into musings on the voice and its relationship to images, to odors, to all sensory experiencesand most poignantly, into a timely commentary on the body,