Art of Escape by Mina Gorji Lewis Freedman Argentine poet Arnaldo Calveyras first

Argentine poet Arnaldo Calveyras first book of poetry

Here the blasted landscapes of the pre-forgotten present give way to the richer patternings of the tree alphabet

seating famous and beloved birds like the puffin next to less well known species like the knot

and beautifully lyrical

here are the last steps of the ‘wolf walker’ Lycambes

Art of Escape by Mina Gorji Lewis Freedman Argentine poet Arnaldo Calveyras firstAmong Mina Gorji's poems in New Poetries V (2011) was one about Houdini entitled 'The Art of Escape' which returns here as the title poem. This colourful and vivid first collection continues the course of Mina Gorji's meticulous explorations of 'the strange and sometimes darker side of nature' and the different forms and meanings of escape: dandelions crossing the ocean, the journey of a gall wasp from Aleppo to England, the transformation of an