Between Fish Scales Ruins and Other Poems the open sea as a

the open sea as a mode of knowing and means of conveying knowledge

the book includes a scrupulous new translation of “Metrical Spaces” by Jennifer Scappettone and a critical afterword by Andrea di Serego Alighieri

Draait het uiteindelijk om angstbezwering

silence and sea-led poetic craft

de Ander en de Een

Between Fish Scales Ruins and Other Poems the open sea as aLeire Bilbao (trans. Joana Urtasun) In her English language debut, Basque poet Leire Bilbao gives us a visceral view of motherhood, worklife, and plural desire in a maritime landscape, both hyper real and eerily anthropomorphic. Carrying the melodies of her early, bardic work as a bertsolari (singer of improvised Basque verse), and a lived knowledge of local fishing traditions, Bilbao weaves a net of unfamiliar language that trawls the depths of