Saffron Jack by Rishi Dastidar #Danishpoetry she often identified with Alice

she often identified with Alice

and you want to imagine that these bright and attentive moments are everywhere

there where sound has its source

and a nameless place peopled by the ghosts of dead friends

Marilyn Hacker’s generous selections in A Stranger’s Mirror include work from four previous volumes along with twenty-five new poems

Saffron Jack by Rishi Dastidar #Danishpoetry she often identified with AliceAn outcast, an outsider, an oddball. With too much ambition and not enough talent, Saffron Jack has never fitted in wherever hes been. Now, with the feeling that his time is running out, he needs to do something drastic to change his life. So what better idea than to run away to the nearest war zone, and within the bullets, destruction and fighting do the thing hes always wanted to do: start his own country and declare himself king At once an