the difficulty of defining what love is
and this bilingual edition presents the Chinese text alongside Brian Holton’s masterly translation of a technically complex work of great beauty
and its stubborn delectation of life
Nora Nadjarian
the sonnets were then chewed for the 15 minutes her lips were said to move after decapitation
Erosions by John A. Griffin PRE-ORDER Arc Publications the difficulty of defining whatErosions is John A. Griffins first full length book of poems. Written shortly after he emigrated to the United States, the poems comprise a kind of Bildungsroman exploring themes of boyhood innocence, fantasy, landscapes, nature, death, loss, absence, exile, and a coming into ones powers as one seeks to apprehend the changes wrought by time, epiphany, and departure. Absence, lines, natural forces, spirituality, and extinction are all leitmotifs in the