Cherry Blossom at NightbreakCherry Blossom at Nightbreak by Rishi Dastidar blooms with poems determined to do the generous work of love and hope using the power of language to make change, express desire, and imagine the world as we'd like it to be. Dastidar's poems, with their deft skill in moving from the surreal to the profound, are a perfect burst of joy in challenging times, effervescent and seriously playful, romancing cityscapes and bursting with wit.

gently steering itself towards reconciliation with loss

Contentious Spaces is a haunting story about identity and loyalty

Muhammad Khudayyir and Shahla Ujayli

Nikola Vaptsarov

This issue of Modern Poetry in Translation celebrates speech that has been freed

” While traces of this impulse inevitably recur

All texts were either translated directly from Arabic (approximately two-thirds) or from Hebrew

ISBN 9781932800012) and Too Long a Solitude (Oklahoma

Scandinavia

As age gives her ever deeper insight

Its use of language is eloquent and concentrated and its juxtapositions are often daring

A published poet and critic