Monsoon Diary by Joseph Woods Penguin Putnam The written word winds through

The written word winds through their varying accents and rhythms

intensity and substance

and look ahead as she tries to work out what it means to be the one who stays behind

Rosy Carrick’s new bi-lingual edition of the poem firmly re-establishes Mayakovsky’s reputation as one the most important political poets of the twentieth century

Monsoon Diary by Joseph Woods Penguin Putnam The written word winds throughBetween the birth of the poets daughter and the deaths of his parents, the poems in Monsoon Diary attempt to make sense of the world, from a mid life flight from home en famille to new perspectives on both the past and the future. Monsoon Diary strikes an often elegiac tone, betraying a growing awareness of mortality and the many losses that come with age. But it also bears witness to a country transitioning from dictatorship to democracy, finds the