One Impossible StepOrides Fontela, translation Chris Daniels A selection of extraordinarily condensed, emotionally complex, philosophical poems by a unique and highly regarded 20th century Brazilian poet. In her lifetime, Orides Fontela resisted all labels, all attempts to situate her work in a particular movement, school, tendency, or tradition. Here, in her first ever English language collection, Fontelas poetry continues to defy easy categorization. In these concise,

Schaduw en plaats

Then the book flips on a seam and invokes Chaucer as an unlikely guide through a series of dream-blocks

Paul Becker

Rachel should be working for the city of New York

and giving what you don’t have

Half a dozen of these books have been excerpted and published in English over the years

Returning to the island of Samos during the summer of 1979

and this book is certainly poetry

Nâzim Hikmet

and then a new chain begins

De dichter wordt man van

impermanent art and the improvisatory oral performance