The God's Orbit by Aura Christi trans. By Adam J. Sorkin and Petru Iamandi Jen Campbell Chrissie Gittins

Chrissie Gittins

who have only ever heard rumour of one

Lawrence Schimel’s translations

and a 3-page-long ode to sex against a wall

The God's Orbit by Aura Christi trans. By Adam J. Sorkin and Petru Iamandi Jen Campbell Chrissie GittinsAura Christi is a romantic in classic disguise, reminding some of Hlderlin, Rilke or Emily Dickinson, with a unique approach, at the same time mythical and mystical, to the perennial themes of poetry, giving precedence to the individuals inner and outer exile. In The Gods Orbit, her most successful collection of poetry, Christi strikes the reader by her seraphic serenity, inspired, as she confesses, by Fra Angelicos mural paintings. But ironically,