Rough Breathing: Selected Poems

Rough Breathing is a substantial selection from thirty years of procedurally and formally inventive writing from poet, editor and art critic, Harry Gilonis. A lively, lyrical and clever collection, the poems often cross the boundaries between original and translated works in a variety of intriguing and innovative ways, including versions of the works of ancient and modern poets. Allusiveness is integral to the core of these poems which are formally and linguistically compact, intense and succint, rigorous and precise - even demanding, yet light and very readable.