With a fistful of sand between your fingers – Three poems by Julio Monteiro Martins translated by Don Stang and Helen Wickes

From the Italian language collection La grazia di casa mia. Rediviva, 2013. From the Farthest Western Shore   From these immense deserts, I think in a conquered European language, and I feel in an abandoned European language; I write about my great fear, so regrettably western.   Around me a scenario that is westernizing in … Continue reading With a fistful of sand between your fingers – Three poems by Julio Monteiro Martins translated by Don Stang and Helen Wickes