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In a note accompanying a group of poems that explore family secrets and private language, I discuss compelling ways poetry and psychoanalysis approach these subjects. I reflect on opportunities these modes of thinking offer for considering meaningful, if confusing, tensions between relevant concepts that are similar but distinct: secrecy and privacy, the foreign and the coded, translation and revelation, the unconscious and the unspeakable.