Poena Damni: review/essay by Toti O’Brien

Ragazine

Published: May 2019
Location: Los Angeles, USA
Reviewed by: Toti O'Brien
Review of book: POENA DAMNI: THE TRILOGY

As I read The First Death, I imagine the carpet of corpses lining the Mediterranean. Strata and strata of limbs—now bones—piled up during recent decades, all belonging to shiploads of migrants seeking escape through Europe. I can’t help connecting the poetry under my eyes with this precise scenery. The most powerful, the most disturbing imagery Lyacos paints makes sense in this context where it naturally embeds itself.

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