A Woman Looks Over Her Shoulder M.S. Redcherries and activist Essex Hemphill has

and activist Essex Hemphill has been lovingly sustained through xeroxed copies of his few published works

the painful ongoing process of letting go

I hope it will have its own coherence as a series of memories and similes laid side by side: an antiphonal account of man in his world

only a small percentage of them ever found their way into print

and into the various holes and voids that appear in the telling and retelling of history

A Woman Looks Over Her Shoulder M.S. Redcherries and activist Essex Hemphill hasBrynja Hjlmsdttir (trans. Rachel Britton) In A Woman Looks Over Her Shoulder, written by contemporary Icelandic poet Brynja Hjlmsdttir and translated by Rachel Britton, one woman lives in a glass ball that is being shaken by someone else. This book of poems, however, is always shaking itself up, leaping between the extreme and the daily, the gross and the delicious, between being scared and being scary. These surreal, visceral, and somehow polite