(
let there be such a rising
)for the world can only rise(
and then
and then
if we find
that the world
doesn't rise
)for the world can only rise(
it must be
that we are
the ones whose
feet are
s
i
n
k
i
n
g
)
excerpt from 'A Chorus of Voices', by Kurt Messick
Dry Bones Press, 2003
Robin Ouzman Hislop's poetry is certainly in dialogue with some of the key architects of the 'poetics of indeterminacy' – both the Modernist strands represented by the likes of Beckett and Stein, and the postmodernist strands represented, initially,
First Edition Translation of Teselas by Carmen Crespo X111 César Simón Poetry Prixe 2016 Translated from Spanish by Robin Ouzman Hislop and Amparo Arrospíde