One Impossible Step Shabnam Baqhiri With lightness and precision

With lightness and precision

Incubation creates radical space for what is ‘monstrous’

that celebrates the carnal life

and recent political disasters

One Impossible Step Shabnam Baqhiri With lightness and precisionOrides Fontela, translation Chris Daniels A selection of extraordinarily condensed, emotionally complex, philosophical poems by a unique and highly regarded 20th century Brazilian poet. In her lifetime, Orides Fontela resisted all labels, all attempts to situate her work in a particular movement, school, tendency, or tradition. Here, in her first ever English language collection, Fontelas poetry continues to defy easy categorization. In these concise,