from the Dictionary of Misremembered English” she writes, “
I can only bless you once, says the Angel / of Syntax, who believes we are born among / words the way birds are born among wings.” These poems investigate the layered intricacies of language itself as much as they plumb the depths of their subject matters, which tend toward the intersection of the animal, the translatable, and the mysteries of faith, locked together like calcite crystals in mizzi stone, expertly sawn, sanded, and polished to a mirror finish. Christopher Notarnicola
The music of the now ninety-seven-year-old Emahoy Tsegué-Maryam Guèbrou, some of which is captured on the compilation
New-york
United-states
Cairo
Al-qahirah
Egypt
Switzerland
Ethiopia
Ethiopian
America
Emahoy-tsegu
Addis-ababa
Robin-jones