Thick of It by Ulrike Almut Sandig, trans. by Karen Leeder Sarah Westcott Anyone who has ever felt

Anyone who has ever felt comforted in grief by words

Julia Bird's poems are beautifully textured

already known for translations of Mexican poets

a bar where a merchant mariner has a story he must tell

Thick of It by Ulrike Almut Sandig, trans. by Karen Leeder Sarah Westcott Anyone who has ever feltThe poems of Ulrike Almut Sandig are at once simple and fantastic. This new collection finds her on her way to imaginary territories. Thick of It charts a journey through two hemispheres to the center of the world and navigates a thicket that is at once the world, the psyche, and language itself. The poems explore an urgently urban reality, but that reality is interwoven with references to nightmares, the Bible, fairy tales, and nursery rhymesall