Something Evergreen Called Life Natalie Diaz

Something Evergreen Called Life Natalie DiazRania Mamoun (trans. Yasmine Seale) After years of writing and organizing against the regime of Omar al Bashir, Sudanese writer, journalist, and activist Rania Mamoun was finally forced to leave her country with her young daughters, taking refuge in a US city in the early throes of a pandemic. Confined to her new home, Mamoun embarked on a daily practice of writing out of which emerged these poems of loss, despair, and hope. Brought into English by

rich lines

There are poems as spells - spells against suppression

‘My flair / for closure / is too serious / for anniversaries’ writes Steve Malmude

the barbed wartime quatrains of 'Leap Before You Look'

the scripture’s last book

Gonzalez’s poetry depicts the fullness of living

of the British Empire

Luuk Gruwez

transcription) to the philosophical (morality

XEclogue is an exploration of the pleasures of the pastoral poetry from a late-twentieth-century feminist perspective

exploring a spiritual terrain he enigmatically dubbed the transreal

Her third collection of poems