Affordable Angst: Selected Poems by Mercedes Cebrian, trans. By Terence Dooley shearsman books richly textured lines

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war and death

Sadie McCarney's rewarding debut collection

like wrought iron'

” Fiona Moore

Affordable Angst: Selected Poems by Mercedes Cebrian, trans. By Terence Dooley shearsman books richly textured linesMercedes Cebrian is interested in how the ideas and ideals by which we live our lives intersect with the minutiae of those lives: food, decor, travel, taxes, relationships, celebrity watching, the quiddity of the everyday. I remember a board game from my child hood: trees, houses, cars, tiny people with fixed smiles, lives mapped out, with consumer choices made for you and decisions taken for you on the little question cards she writes in the poem