the diction is the real star of this invigorating book
’ – W
Lawrence Schimel’s translations
and a 3-page-long ode to sex against a wall
who have only ever heard rumour of one
The God's Orbit by Aura Christi trans. By Adam J. Sorkin and Petru Iamandi Jen Campbell the diction is the realAura Christi is a romantic in classic disguise, reminding some of Hlderlin, Rilke or Emily Dickinson, with a unique approach, at the same time mythical and mystical, to the perennial themes of poetry, giving precedence to the individuals inner and outer exile. In The Gods Orbit, her most successful collection of poetry, Christi strikes the reader by her seraphic serenity, inspired, as she confesses, by Fra Angelicos mural paintings. But ironically,