The BrushEliana Hernndez Pachn, translation Robin Myers A wise, visionary debut on ecological and human resistance, perfect for readers of Joy Harjo and Tracy K. Smith, and fans of the earth body artwork of Ana Mendieta. The Brush is an incantatory, fearless exploration of collective trauma and its horrific relevance in todays Colombia, where mass killings continue. Told from the voices Pablo, Ester, and the Brush itself, Hernndez Pachns poem is an astounding

Often situated within the British Poetry Revival

where he had spent long periods of exile throughout his life

Baudelaire’s turn toward fragmentary writing involved not only a conscious renunciation of his aesthetics of perfection and unity

Carlos Soto-Román

Elegiac and odic

If life is no more than a prolonged flirtation with death

Dus bijvoorbeeld ook voor als je op maandag al toe bent aan weekend

each poem representing a single day during which the spirit roams after death before it enters the cycle of reincarnation

een drukke baan

followed by a further seven along with a group of uncollected poems to the third edition of Poems (2015)

and philosophers

Midway through life’s journey