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SplitLevel Texts, paperback

Publication Date: August 19, 2024

Publisher Marketing: ATLANTICA AND THE RUSTIC is a luminous collection of verses documenting the earth in all its radiant, ravaged particularity. Like the shifting boundary between sea and sky, a tenuous horizon joins the two halves of this brilliantly translated book: the first a series of ecological encounters reported to the poet by a friend; the second a fragmented lyric from the very edge of the terrestrial world. Throughout, Mara Baranda’s bristling, peripatetic lines remind us that “any route is an artifice,” any memory stained with the “vestiges of oblivion.” This translation marks an invaluable contribution to the field of Anglophone ecopoetics and an urgent injunction to pay attentionto ocean and shore, to soil and weather, and to the infinite textures of our own mystification. Maggie Millner, author of COUPLETS: A LOVE STORY