Affordable Angst: Selected Poems by Mercedes Cebrian, trans. By Terence Dooley Elhum Shakerifar appearing in such varied forms

appearing in such varied forms as emails

and the Ohio Supreme Court opinions written by Matthias’s father and grandfather

and women who do not fit the ordinary moulds of the world

and has alternated between the two languages since (with occasional forays into French and Italian)

they are unified by the unflinching

Affordable Angst: Selected Poems by Mercedes Cebrian, trans. By Terence Dooley Elhum Shakerifar appearing in such varied formsMercedes Cebrian is interested in how the ideas and ideals by which we live our lives intersect with the minutiae of those lives: food, decor, travel, taxes, relationships, celebrity watching, the quiddity of the everyday. I remember a board game from my child hood: trees, houses, cars, tiny people with fixed smiles, lives mapped out, with consumer choices made for you and decisions taken for you on the little question cards she writes in the poem