A Woman Looks Over Her Shoulder M.S. Redcherries and buried many times over

and buried many times over by history

and a testament to tenderness in the face of violence

and into the various holes and voids that appear in the telling and retelling of history

the painful ongoing process of letting go

A Woman Looks Over Her Shoulder M.S. Redcherries and buried many times overBrynja Hjlmsdttir (trans. Rachel Britton) In A Woman Looks Over Her Shoulder, written by contemporary Icelandic poet Brynja Hjlmsdttir and translated by Rachel Britton, one woman lives in a glass ball that is being shaken by someone else. This book of poems, however, is always shaking itself up, leaping between the extreme and the daily, the gross and the delicious, between being scared and being scary. These surreal, visceral, and somehow polite