
Beyond the Sea by Elsa Cross (trans. Anamaría Crowe Serrano, Shearsman Books, 2016), second selectio
More fine passages from this splendid collection: ...the sound of the first cicada now fitfully cutting the silence of dawn. Words wanted beyond what they are-- * Day returns us to a measured balance, to limits-- until the cicadas strike up: a deranged scream, a voracious incision over the moment. * Suddenly still, the tongue savours its slow monosyllable, its restrained flames. * The waves are now only inebriation, shouts that become quicklight. from 'Cicadas' Fibres of your