Edinburgh Notebook
Publisher: Action Books
Published: Mar 01, 2021
Language: eng
Format: paperback
Number of pages: 158
ISBN-13: 9780900575082
Description: Translated by Michelle Gil-Montero. A book-length epitaph for her late brother Charlie, Valerie Mejer Caso's Edinburgh Notebook is a captivating, startling expression of grief. Following a trail of breadcrumbs, Mejer Caso's poems shift between memories, cities, philosophies, echoes and landscapes of quicksand, oceans, deserts, apocalypse. Featuring photographs by Barry Shapiro, Edinburgh Notebook contains a profound archive of cultural history coursing with elliptical, illuminating poems. Even without being / you are what exists and what does not exist, / the looming night.