The Desert by María do Cebreiro (Shearsman Books), translated from Galician by Keith Payne Theo Dorgan through the dizzying landscapes of

through the dizzying landscapes of a country undergoing profound change

or anything else for that matter

tuned into the drift of the present

Is Not upends our notions of linear time

but also in memory: both ancestral (his maternal grandfather tendered for the building of Sydney Harbour Bridge) and aboriginal

The Desert by María do Cebreiro (Shearsman Books), translated from Galician by Keith Payne Theo Dorgan through the dizzying landscapes of"The majority of these poems exist thanks to a convalescence that lasted half a year and that, like the practice of Hesychasm, forced me to become quiet, solitary and silent. In the writing of this book I was very inspired by the audio visual piece Et la guerre est a peine comence (And the war has only just begun), from Tiqunn Collective, who I had first heard about thanks to the publisher and philosopher Roberto Abun. The voice over in the film