Rain of the Future by Valerie Mejer (Action Books, 2013) Trans. by Forrest Gander, C.D. Wright, and A.S. Zelman-Doring
Reviewed by Rebecca Valley
In her book Rain of the Future, Valerie Mejer begins underwater. She writes:
“In the green water I saw your eye and in it I saw that Arabian palace
filled with birds and broken glass.
…
My sun-baked body at the edge,
wind in my lungs, its whistle,
my torn world, my grief,
my soggy passport, my shell with no pearl,
you lift them, delicate cloud, into a liquid world.” (15)
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