The Taste of Lightning by Ivan V. Lalić, trans. Francis R. Jones pre-order Mercedes Cebrian is interested in

Mercedes Cebrian is interested in how the ideas and ideals by which we live our lives intersect with the minutiae of those lives: food

and slyly erotic

George Mackay Brown

Roald Dahl

The Taste of Lightning by Ivan V. Lalić, trans. Francis R. Jones pre-order Mercedes Cebrian is interested inPublished 20th November 2025. The Taste of Lightning is a new selection of poems by Ivan V. Lali, one of 20th century Yugoslavias most crucial poets. Lalis poetry is alive with seeing and feeling the world a world of sun and wind, water and fire. He is also a poet of love a love for his wife Branka that matures like wine over the decades. From adolescence, through young adulthood, to the onset of old age, where We are twin foci of the same ellipse