The Desert by María do Cebreiro (Shearsman Books), translated from Galician by Keith Payne Theo Dorgan the International Brigades

the International Brigades

Patricia Smith reinvents the role of witness with an incendiary fusion of forms

tuned into the drift of the present

witness to what seems the end of the world

but also in memory: both ancestral (his maternal grandfather tendered for the building of Sydney Harbour Bridge) and aboriginal

The Desert by María do Cebreiro (Shearsman Books), translated from Galician by Keith Payne Theo Dorgan the International Brigades"The majority of these poems exist thanks to a convalescence that lasted half a year and that, like the practice of Hesychasm, forced me to become quiet, solitary and silent. In the writing of this book I was very inspired by the audio visual piece Et la guerre est a peine comence (And the war has only just begun), from Tiqunn Collective, who I had first heard about thanks to the publisher and philosopher Roberto Abun. The voice over in the film