A Woman Looks Over Her Shoulder Boat

A Woman Looks Over Her Shoulder BoatBrynja 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

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