Maps of Desire by Manuel Forcano, translated by Anna Crow
PBS Recommended Translation Autumn 2019 Phonewriting anxieties and delights

anxieties and delights

as well as lost from ourselves

as well as four pamphlets of poetry

self-portraiture and self-perception to shine a light on all that is dark

still being thoroughly sane back in

Maps of Desire by Manuel Forcano, translated by Anna Crow <br><b>PBS Recommended Translation Autumn 2019 </b> Phonewriting anxieties and delightsManuel Forcano, the outstanding Catalan poet, is a great traveller, and the poems in this, his first full length book in English translation, embrace the cities, the landscapes and the people of the Middle East. Drawn from his four most recent collections, these poems use geographical and historical references to deepen and inform the narrative, and also to lay before the reader the idea of the continuity, over many centuries, of human love and