Countersong to Walt Whitman by Pedro Mir Picador As we might expect from

As we might expect from the author of a number of astute and widely praised critical volumes on Welsh Art

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These two books mark a turning point in Blandiana’s poetic evolution: they lead towards a new conception of poetry as a reflection on being that culminates in My Native Land A4 (first published in Romania in 2010 and published in English by Bloodaxe in 2014)

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is made up of her first four book-length poems: The History of Violets(1965)

Countersong to Walt Whitman by Pedro Mir Picador As we might expect fromFirst published by Azul Editions in 1993, Countersong to Walt Whitman and Other Poems is the only book length collection of Mir's poetry in English translation. The eight poems selected include several of his signature pieces from the late 1940s through the 1970s: Countersong to Walt Whitman; There Is a Country in the World; If Somebody Wants to Know Which Is My Country; To the Battleship Intrepid; Not One Step Back; Amen to Butterflies; Concerto of