Black's sensitive attention to emotional states of mind
This is the first collection of her own poems by the noted translator Angela Livingstone
in an era of climate change and upheaval
makes two appearances
The collection as a whole extends her range and probes more deeply her primary concerns - the uncertainty and necessity of love and the drive to find meaning and healing through the medium of language
Book of Days by Vaughan Pilikian Inua Ellams Black's sensitive attention to emotionalSupplication, lament, invitation, warning; invocation, danger, devotion. You cannot consider these poems anything but true, but to what world do they correspond? With flames and shadows, birds and stars, for days of rage and of wonder, Vaughan Pilikian takes us on a series of risky, exalting journeys to the end of lyric. Read and live them. Vaughan Pilikian was born in London to an American mother and Armenian father. After studies in classical