Letter So That Happiness Mohammed Sof Somewhere en Route (1992)

Somewhere en Route (1992)

trees wriggle when walked past

Fisher began her writing career as a poet and now returns to poetry with her first collection since 1999

all published by Salmon Poetry

Dominica’s Maroons once controlled much of this wild and mountainous island but few details of their story of resistance and ultimate defeat have been known - until now

Letter So That Happiness Mohammed Sof Somewhere en Route (1992)Argentine poet Arnaldo Calveyras first book of poetry, Letters So That Happiness (Cartas para qe la alegra), tells the story of the authors one way journey as a young man from his home in the northern pampas to Buenos Aires in 1950. It was the first leg of a journey that would end in exile. In this gentle, diffuse text in which time and place radiate and recede and spring up many and green, Letters strikingly anticipates the collusive forces that