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Sid Gold is the author of four previous collections: Working Vocabulary (Washington Writers' Publishing House, 1997 & 2021), The Year of the Dog Throwers (Broadkill River Press, 2010), Good With Oranges (Broadkill River Press, 2015) and Crooked Speech (Pond Road Press, 2018). He is a twice recipient of the Maryland State Art Council Individual Artist Award for Poetry and in 2019 he was voted among Baltimore's Best Poets in the Baltimore Magazine Reader's Poll. His poems have appeared in reviews, journals and anthologies for more than forty years. A native New Yorker, he has lived in Hyattsville, Maryland, for a number of years.

New poems by the recent winner of the William Meredith Award for Poetry. Kirlin is a keen observer of life's tragedies and ambiguities. But in the end, his moral courage lifts us up, and makes poetry, once again, worthwhile.

Introduction by MYRA SKALREW Languages are living organisms, according to George Steiner. Barbara Goldberg, in Transformation, comes into her true landscape as she moves between languages, exploring the evolution of her restless and profound journey. At long last, she can call on her multiple resources-poetry and prose, humor and tragedy, life in this century cast in the shadow of "19th Century Vienna." The hidden memories of loved ones. "Even the dead" who "can't keep a secret." Languages-French, English, German, Hebrew. The divergent syntax of each. All the while, "Fear is the ravenous wolf at my door. Sometimes I throw him a scrap, in the shape of a poem." None of this prevents her from tackling these translations-"as satisfying to create as an original (well, a lot of the time!)." We go from Rilke's "Saltimbanques" in French to Israeli poems in Hebrew, including from Iraq, to her long shared life and work with Moshe Dor. The collection includes interviews and Barbara Goldberg's work as International Editor for the Word Work Series including poetry from the Kurdish, Ancient Greek, the French of Jean Cocteau, and Spanish/Mexican. As I write this I am drawn back to Walter Benjamin and George Steiner, as if a "pure language…like a hidden spring seeking to force its way through the silted channels of our differing tongues" will emerge. Transformation is a powerful element in that journey, worthy of our attention. [Note: After Babel: Aspects of Langua

"Enabling Love" traces Tom Kirlin's long journey toward a deep understanding and empathy for the poetry of William Meredith. It is an appreciation based on years of friendship between the two poets in a format that is as complex as the mind of Meredith himself. The award comes during the centenary year of Meredith's birth and is only one of a number of events celebrating the life of this great Americt.an spirit

"Witty, sharp, sensual, possessed of a scientist's eye for the precise detail, the memorable image. Elisavietta Ritchie is in love with the natural world of maggot, freezing bilge, the owl…on unheard wings," "berries fed on ash and blood," "branches with lavender fire." She brings a tuned ear for the music of language, a storyteller's gift and a generosity of spirit that delights as it informs. Her books deserve an enthusiastic audience." Colette Inez, The Woman who Loved Worms, Horseplay, and other books.