So Rise by John Goodby Julia Copus ‘From the first poem’s quiet

‘From the first poem’s quiet lyricism to the final poem’s dazzling thirty sentences

'The challenges of translating elaborate poems from medieval Persian to modern English are legion…  But Mario Petrucci takes on the task with gusto here

an afterword consisting of an informal dialogue between the two poets complements in prose the themes their poems explore

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So Rise by John Goodby Julia Copus ‘From the first poem’s quietSo, Rise is an ethical enquiry into a teeming world regained by a survivor. The vision won arrives without a word wasted, each salty syllable the world works for is charged with a meaning that only poetry can reach.Kelvin CorcoranSo, with these poems, we also rise and Goodby does this as if language were his new invention. Juggling, balancing, nosing it all out in an all embracing rush. Forget emotion, this is the triumph of system.Peter Finch Red