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What is a short summary of Variations on the Right to Remain Silent in the collection, Float?

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"Variations on the Right to Remain Silent" is an essay concerned with translation and the limitations of language; by invoking such figures as Francis Bacon, Joan of Arc, and Paul Celan, Carson suggests that sometimes translation amounts to an act of interpretation, which, as she makes clear both in this chapbook and elsewhere, is a wholly individual and thus, unique process — much like the experience readers have when approaching Float, and its 22 chapbooks.

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