The Way the Water Held Me Ahlaam Moledina as if she were a

as if she were a goddess

a new translation of Yi Sang by Jack Jung

Accursed Poets: Dissident Poetry from Soviet Russia 1960-80 is an anthology of dissident and samizdat poetry in Russian and English translation

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The Way the Water Held Me Ahlaam Moledina as if she were aWhile newly married, with the couple expecting their first child, Catherine Redfords wife was tragically diagnosed with a terminal illness. The Way the Water Held Me is a mesmeric plunge into the caring, grief, loss and love experienced by a young widow. Across poems of heartbreak and honesty, memory and mourning and through unlikely companionship with a widowed Mary Shelley Catherine Redfords debut collection is visceral, profound and alive with what