New and Selected Sorrows by Goran Simić John Ashbery would have been more driven

would have been more driven out or driven towards

"Katherine Gallagher's new collection is bejewelled throughout with haiku-like moments of vivid observation

a ‘happiness of the hand and heart’

and annotated with contextual notes and background information including dates

‘Reading these new poems and returning to those read decades ago has been a delight because Ormsby is a poet of enviable gifts

New and Selected Sorrows by Goran Simić John Ashbery would have been more drivenNew and Selected Sorrows draws on Goran Simis earlier collections, From Sarajevo with Sorrow, Sunrise in the Eyes of the Snowman and Immigrant Blues, together with many new poems published in English for the first time. It is a book about passports and borders, rats and wolves, soldiers and ghosts. It is a record of the realities and the unrealities of life in the Balkans, narrated by an ordinary man with ears of ordinary silk, whose sees the face of