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Instead of trying to describe it
’ – Pascale Petit
and communal significance to Pablo Neruda or Nicolás Guillén
the natural world and its inhabitants – and water is everywhere
Life Has Become More Cheerful by Aidan Semmens pamphlet Instead of trying to describeAidan Semmens is a poet who has always been fearless in confronting the plight of the world with its disturbed ways and this volume is no exception. The mordantly titled Life Has Become More Cheerful is a chilling quote by Stalin after the horrors of the Great Purge in 1938 and sets the tone for what is to come. The first poem announces 1917, the start of the Russian Revolution, and from there follows its aftermath, interspersed with passages from the
