Something Evergreen Called Life Jump the Clock to the world’s astonishment

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" In Gizzi's voice joy and sorrow make a complex ecosystem

West Coast Beat poet Philip Whalen's Scenes of Life at the Capital is a lasting testament to the ambition

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brilliantly translated and annotated by Andrew Fitzsimons

Something Evergreen Called Life Jump the Clock to the world’s astonishmentRania Mamoun (trans. Yasmine Seale) After years of writing and organizing against the regime of Omar al Bashir, Sudanese writer, journalist, and activist Rania Mamoun was finally forced to leave her country with her young daughters, taking refuge in a US city in the early throes of a pandemic. Confined to her new home, Mamoun embarked on a daily practice of writing out of which emerged these poems of loss, despair, and hope. Brought into English by