melt by Sarah Hymas Julia Bird rooted in history that is

rooted in history that is at once ancient and contemporary

Then he spent half a century trying to get up to speed with Proust's great novel in two different languages

and alcoholism -- and open spaces in which to share in emotional and quasi-spiritual transcendence

is said to have despaired of the world’s venality and corruption

His poetic voice is fluent and full of resounding clarity

melt by Sarah Hymas Julia Bird rooted in history that ismelt, structurally influenced by the poets work as an artistbook maker, enfolds the intimacy of the known with what is unseen, and seemingly remote. Here, Hymas creates a poetic space of ocean as an assemblage of animal, plant, plastic, mineral, technology, human and more, a book that reaches for an ecological mutuality, a reorientation of that which appears distant into a poetic proximity. And just as there is no one way to read the sea, there is no