Hot Metal
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Nansý Sunadóttir slices through memory and longing in four poems from her collection I’m Sharpening My Knife, I’m Coming Home, translated from Faroese by Matthew Landrum. Readers experience the city of Pittsburgh on a fall afternoon: football, snow, memories of old, and shots of Black Velvet, in Joseph Bathanti’s “Hot Metal.” And Jane Newkirk considers the demands of caring in a rural hospital, in “Swim.”
Illustrations from Histoire naturelle des dorades de la Chine (1780.) The dorades in the title refers not to sea bream but the fish’s gilded appearance. This illustrated book was the first monograph on goldfish published in Europe, from a time when the fish were still bound up with Eastern exoticism in the Western imagination. (via Public Domain Review at https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/chinese-fishes/)
