Between Fish Scales The Lady of Elche 'The most moving lines literature

'The most moving lines literature has achieved' - Jorge Luis Borges

Ex Daemon is de Rorschach in het remspoor

Not merely a regional articulation but in global resonance

naar de harmonie der scheuren

and the documentary losses of revolutions in Chronicles of the Hostile Sun

Between Fish Scales The Lady of Elche 'The most moving lines literatureLeire Bilbao (trans. Joana Urtasun) In her English language debut, Basque poet Leire Bilbao gives us a visceral view of motherhood, worklife, and plural desire in a maritime landscape, both hyper real and eerily anthropomorphic. Carrying the melodies of her early, bardic work as a bertsolari (singer of improvised Basque verse), and a lived knowledge of local fishing traditions, Bilbao weaves a net of unfamiliar language that trawls the depths of