Possibilities in Shade by Mariano Peyrou, trans. Terence Dooley Paul Vincent This is what I like

This is what I like

Her enormously energetic poems are full of dizzying transitions and tonal shifts' – Sean O'Brien

struggling for poise

But the poem is no fiction: it is about a real woman's murder in the city of Reykjavik

Possibilities in Shade by Mariano Peyrou, trans. Terence Dooley Paul Vincent This is what I likeFear is the liquid state of pain as a wound is the solid state of fear. Mariano Peyrous pulsating and mesmerizing meditation on love, time, and memory, here elegantly translated by Terence Dooley, is at once minimalist and expansive: its subtle repetition of key nouns and verbs creates a dreamscape in which two parallel lines meet in your eyes. If parallel, how can these lines meet? The path to understanding repeatedly confronts a mountain, because