Damion Searls is the author of The Philosophy of Translation and The Mariner’s Mirror. His translation of Robert Walser’s late poems and a lost novella is forthcoming in 2027. Photograph © Beowulf Sheehan
‘Note to self: Take a walk / to go see Hermann Hesse’ Two poems by Robert Walser, translated by Damion Searls.
‘You were a chasm that cracked and turned into stones, and then the stones lay there, beautifully laid, in a wall.’
