Angel in Flames: Selected Poems & Translations 1967-2011Angel in Flames brings together, for the first time, the best of James Scullys poetry. The works featured begin in the 1960s when it was claimed that Vietnamese villages had to be destroyed to be saved and continue on to the 21st century terror wars fought not on battlefields but against civilian populations. There are two angels in this book. One is Walter Benjamins Angel of History; the other is an unemployed and illiterate Puerto Rican man. Both

and write your own response to the words

from all over his empire

And so The Word for Sorrow came about

While Boccaccio does not go so far as directly to question the social or religious fabric of medieval society

The poems are read by his widow

PLUS many more

In much the same way as he plays a solo he gives you everything

A surefire treat for poetry lovers

Younis al-Akhzami

Wild Mulberries by Iman Humaydan Younes

The trouble is that we could say the same thing about living

He wants to restore his father’s olive press house and live an idyllic life farming in peace