A Woman Looks Over Her Shoulder M.S. Redcherries and buried many times over

and buried many times over by history

and activist Essex Hemphill has been lovingly sustained through xeroxed copies of his few published works

the painful ongoing process of letting go

only a small percentage of them ever found their way into print

this book makes me want to write poems again

A Woman Looks Over Her Shoulder M.S. Redcherries and buried many times overBrynja Hjlmsdttir (trans. Rachel Britton) In A Woman Looks Over Her Shoulder, written by contemporary Icelandic poet Brynja Hjlmsdttir and translated by Rachel Britton, one woman lives in a glass ball that is being shaken by someone else. This book of poems, however, is always shaking itself up, leaping between the extreme and the daily, the gross and the delicious, between being scared and being scary. These surreal, visceral, and somehow polite