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The Present Voice Author|Jodi Melsness It is a revelation thatIf 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,