The Hand of the Hand Maxim Znak

The Hand of the Hand Maxim ZnakThe Hand of the Hand brings us to a future or an alternate universe in which earth, animal, and human intertwinewhere stomachs have meadows, milk pours itself over trees, and flies wash the dead. Vazquez pulls deceptively simple, bare language into puzzling formations, creating an ambient unease. By turns lyrical and absurd, The Hand of the Hand explores the mystery and strangeness of what it means to be both speech and body, tongue and dirt.

was first published in Hindi in 1984 and is widely regarded as one of the most important works of modern Indian poetry

Bohdan Piasecki

If at the end of his life Boccaccio returned to the Dantesque vision of things (in his Life of Dante and commentary on the first seventeen cantos of the Divina Commedia)

often with brutal authenticity

and the sustaining power of family bonds

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sly logic of disobedient matter and the ‘indecent mischief’ of things – a bloody razor

His short fiction has been twice short-listed for the Hennessy Literary Award for New Irish Writing

Bernard Howells

This ground-breaking bilingual anthology brings together a wide range of contemporary Latin American women poets

will their hopes pan out

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