Amorgos Notebook, by Elsa Cross. Translated by Luis Ingelmo & Tony Frazer (bilingual edition) Holland Park Press The exploration of memory is

The exploration of memory is at once a source of ironic amusement and an acknowledgement of human transience

Excavating technical poetic terminology such as ‘the lyric’ as indicative of the lyre

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Discovered snoozing on a mountainside above Lake Rotoiti

Amorgos Notebook, by Elsa Cross. Translated by Luis Ingelmo & Tony Frazer (bilingual edition) Holland Park Press The exploration of memory isAmorgos Notebook (Cuaderno de Amorgs) is a collection from 2007 that won for Elsa Cross Mexicos most prestigious poetry prize, the Xavier Villaurrutia Prize, especially valued by its recipients as the winner is chosen by her peers in the literary world. Elsa Cross work over the past several decades has demonstrated a considerable fascination with Greece, and this sequence takes its departure from the island of Amorgos, in the Cyclades, home of