Burn the Losses bitterzoet “Pound discovered a new model

“Pound discovered a new model that at once mirrored and challenged his developing poetics

The book's title comes from Pedro Scaron's

Het is een gebedenboek

a writer and her husband

How will it unfold

Burn the Losses bitterzoet “Pound discovered a new modelAntonio Gamoneda Shaped by a childhood during the Spanish Civil War and a youth under the censorious Franco dictatorship, Antonio Gamoneda's poetry chronicles both memory and oblivion with an intensity and strangeness that pushes back against all oppressive forces that seek to flatten and reduce our experiences, our language. Burn the Losses oscillates between purity and filth, hope and darkness, the past and a vibrating lyrical present, refusing