Architecture of Dispersed Life — Selected Poems, by Pablo de Rokha, translated by Urayoán Noel Susan Utting This outstanding book confirms Michael

This outstanding book confirms Michael McCarthy as an insightful storyteller: wise and grounded in the everyday the poems nevertheless celebrate the numinous moments in all our lives

he details his bemusement in terse

the collection is a delicious roller-coaster of high and low comedy

Cynthia Miller

witty and engaging

Architecture of Dispersed Life — Selected Poems, by Pablo de Rokha, translated by Urayoán Noel Susan Utting This outstanding book confirms MichaelPablo de Rokha was one of the great Chilean modernists, but he is arguably known more for his feud with Pablo Neruda and Vicente Huidobro than for his vast and remarkable poetry. De Rokha is relatively unknown outside Chile, and this volume redresses that by offering an introduction to this astonishing body of work, the first comprehensive selection in English. Daniel Borzutkzy calls this book "an event, a monumental work of translation and poetry