A Woman Looks Over Her Shoulder M.S. Redcherries the painful ongoing process of

the painful ongoing process of letting go

this book makes me want to write poems again

and buried many times over by history

and a testament to tenderness in the face of violence

In 2020 had de dichter een goed aantal gedichten bij elkaar

A Woman Looks Over Her Shoulder M.S. Redcherries the painful ongoing process ofBrynja Hjlmsdttir (trans. Rachel Britton) In A Woman Looks Over Her Shoulder, written by contemporary Icelandic poet Brynja Hjlmsdttir and translated by Rachel Britton, one woman lives in a glass ball that is being shaken by someone else. This book of poems, however, is always shaking itself up, leaping between the extreme and the daily, the gross and the delicious, between being scared and being scary. These surreal, visceral, and somehow polite