Ransom by Michael Symmons Roberts
PBS Recommendation Spring 2021 Jay G Ying shows his respect for language

shows his respect for language and love for the craft of poetry

This exciting new translation is launched to coincide with two anniversaries: the 50th anniversary of Xenia's 1966 private (and first) edition in Italian

Seed gives us people who are helpless in the face of absurdity

Charting a course from youthful disillusionment to celebratory old-age

Reflecting hot the sun

Ransom by Michael Symmons Roberts<br> <b> PBS Recommendation Spring 2021</b> Jay G Ying shows his respect for languageRansom, the new collection from Michael Symmons Roberts, is an intense and vivid exploration of liberty and limit, of what it means to be alive, and searches for the possibility of hope in a fallen, wounded world. The poems in Ransom display all the lyrical beauty and metaphysical ambition for which his work is acclaimed, but with a new urgency, a ragged edge to what the Independent described as his 'dazzling elegance'. At the heart of this new book