After a decade concentrating on his distinctive versions of Italian classics
Lounging in a Pinter script or pitched from a transit vans rolled-down window
absurdist prose
That someone’s second book can be so audacious and dauntless is remarkable
Despite working away from the literary limelight as an archaeologist
The God's Orbit by Aura Christi trans. By Adam J. Sorkin and Petru Iamandi Omar Cáceres After a decade concentrating onAura Christi is a romantic in classic disguise, reminding some of Hlderlin, Rilke or Emily Dickinson, with a unique approach, at the same time mythical and mystical, to the perennial themes of poetry, giving precedence to the individuals inner and outer exile. In The Gods Orbit, her most successful collection of poetry, Christi strikes the reader by her seraphic serenity, inspired, as she confesses, by Fra Angelicos mural paintings. But ironically,