Impossible Loves by Dario Jaramillo Stephen Sexton and disembodied voices only further

and disembodied voices only further unsettle questions of material and spiritual possession

In her neurodiverse verse

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’ in Fawzi Karim’s words

Impossible Loves by Dario Jaramillo Stephen Sexton and disembodied voices only furtherThis is the first substantial sampling in English of Colombia's greatest living poet, and it draws on five decades' work. Time has been Jaramillo's key theme, all the more urgently so as he grows older. Impossible and lost loves provide another theme, as do the effects of violence done to the body. Absences and disappearances are part of the mix, all underpinned by nostalgia for an idealised, rural childhood. Most of the poems lack a specific