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Translated by Danielle Pieratti (World Poetry Books, paperback)

Publication Date: May 10, 2022

Publisher Marketing: “In Maria BoriosTransparencies, the language is anything but. These poems shimmer along the line between abstraction and flesh where our relationshipsboth intimate and publicare imagined and lived. At once surreal (bees emerging from mouths) and concrete (hair and fingernails in a drawer among neatly folded shirts), cosmic (in the sharp, lunar wind) and terrestrial (in limestone in high-rise glass), Borios words make realms collide. Can the citys vein have rhythm / beneath the feet of those who walk, / their obscene, transparent bodies? she asks. Bodied forth into a supple English by Danielle Pieratti, whose renderings are as beautifully attuned to the shifts and multiplicities of Borios original as they are to the possibilities of sound and line in translation, this is an exciting book.” — Stefania Heim