Balanced and nuanced translations . . . Rudavsky-Brody's versions of Valéry’s poems are often beautiful and in places inspired.
— Claire Messud, New York Review of Books

A Dire Shortage of Usable Meaning . . . rises from parentheses, suspended syntax, and silence . . . A haunted, haunting, and wildly original book.
— Rosanna Warren

Read essays on Paul Valéry and Baudelaire and two new poems