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Why I’m Not A Great Lover   The circumstances The zeitgeist   The inner uncertainty The lack of belief in something after   Literature The wrong music at the wrong time The creaking chandelier in the next room   The shouting of drunks down in the street The frost patterns on the window The poem by Rossetti By John Donne   The thought of giant octopuses Of umbilical cords Of porridge   The squeaking of the bedsprings The bitter smell of oranges consumed this morning The tons of soap, accumulated in the course of an entire life The three-legged dog, seen in a park fifteen years ago   The power outage in ’98 The atmosphere in the apartment in winter around four o’clock in the afternoon   The cold, insect-speckled light of the fluorescent tubes above us The toys under the bed in the box The neck muscle pains The sea     *     A Sentence from the Great French Encyclopédie of 1756   The human population on the planet is, in its size, constant and will remain constant until the end of humanity when no one is left on this earth     *     Theory of Literature   An infinite number of monkeys with typewriters, it is said, would ultimately produce the complete works of Shakespeare   And shortly thereafter the work of Dante, followed by Joyce, Goethe, Kafka, Dickens, Dostoyevsky   Then, after a few months, a few pieces of their own about things like paws, trees or eternal repetition Then a little Dostoyevsky again and all of Shakespeare, once again from the beginning, line by line   In between pieces about trees, about paws, about bananas, and about eternal repetition     *     These poems were selected for inclusion in the January 2015 Translation Issue by Daniel Medin, a contributing editor of The White Review He helps direct the Center for Writers and Translators at the American University of Paris, and is an editor of The Cahiers Series and Music & Literature