Between the Islands by Philip Gross Sohini Basak Oscar Wilde and Ivan Turgenev

Oscar Wilde and Ivan Turgenev spread the notion of a new kind of poetry

her work is a Samhain of unexorcised historical memory

Cynthia Miller

its fears and hopes

in Zurich meanwhile

Between the Islands by Philip Gross Sohini Basak Oscar Wilde and Ivan TurgenevThe two searching sequences that bookend this collection are not so much elegies as unfinished conversations with friends no longer living friendships lost or neglected, with their closeness and distances sensitively mapped. This is Philip Grosss writing at its most hospitable, lit up by a sense of personal address, both tactful and deeply engaged. The sea that is always in sight, between us and beyond us, is more than a metaphor. It is another