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What if the lady -- Jane Austen's contemporary --who conceived the world's most intriguing modern...
Domenico Capilongo continues to play with lyricism, form and language in his new poetry collection,...
Mary Melfi's poem and prose pieces seem to arise from the same isolation, solitude or...
This translation shows precisely why Egito Gonçalves is considered one of Portugal's most important poets....
Swimming Toward the Sun: Collected Poems (1968-2020) brings together five decades of poetry...
Alberto Nessi's … strength as a poet rests with his own distinctive and daring language...
The past infuses the present in the poems gathered in this collection. Painting a transformative wind helps restore a culture to a decimated people. Everyday events trigger a yearning for love from those already departed. A goldfish experiences poetry for the first time, again. An arduous ascent through the Peruvian mountains leads to a stone that stops the sun. By turns ironic, comic, imagistic, experimental, these poems ask what's next, and how do we get there.
"Myth is written on the spine of the Americas. / Long ago, in the time of making / the Word was unspoken. / The Word was nothing / and the something that came from that. / The Word was the foetal murk / and the emergent cry into light."
