The Day Judge Spencer Learned the Power of MetaphorThis collection plunges boldly into an unrelenting quest to make sense of a universe that is both beautiful and troubling. These vibrant poems resonate with a spirited voice that is consistently lively, audaciously erotic and sensual, and crackling with energy. The result is a collection that is arresting, urgent and unfailingly celebratory. Cynthia Schwartzberg Edlow received her M. A. at the University of Illinois, specialising in Poetry. A Pushcart

Fried creates a world of Babylonian flow-charts

Waiel Ashry Going to Williamsburg

2009) and Noorkuuhommik – New Moon Morning (selected poems

readers come away refreshed and drawn deeper into life

[Of the sequence 'Ways of Mourning'] she has created a memorial with these poems

David Butler

This issue of Modern Poetry in Translation celebrates speech that has been freed

like hands

Rose Fyleman

Layla al-Juhni – Excerpt from Jahiliya

translated by David Constantine

in 1963 and currently lives in Dublin where he is Editor of the Dedalus Press