And We Were All Alive Alphabetical Diaries occupying the same space as

occupying the same space as each of Dermisache’s lines

Transverse is magnificent

Alongside the writer and translator Kate Briggs

Though the poems are each fourteen lines long

wisdom and truth

And We Were All Alive Alphabetical Diaries occupying the same space asOlvido Garca Valds Translated by Catherine Hammond, bilingual edition Spanish English "Weve been waiting so long, so expectantly for the poetry of Olvido Garca Valds to appear in English translations that convey her signal importance to contemporary poetry in Spain and to international literature. She is one of the great ones. Garca Valds taps a mode as essential as the Virgilian pastoral. She pressurizes and opens vents in the syntax, inciting