The Don't Touch GardenThank you for your donation of two and sixpence I am delighted to tell you we have for you a dear little catholic baby girl if you like baby you may take her away no need to bring any clothes, baby will have a small bundle So wrote the Adoption Society to the woman who became Kate Foleys adoptive mother. Sixty years later she was standing with her newly discovered brother by the bronze plaque commemorating their mother in a San Francisco graveyard.

The abundance and variety of material we received for Diaspora was astonishing

translated by John Lucas

noted by reviewers for their originality

this book presents a significant overview of the drama of our era

"An immensely readable work

Lucia Medal of Merit in 2000

His Collected Poems was published in 2014

The Middleman is his first full-length collection

Odetta is a 54-year-old wife and mother talking her way through the day of her secret abortion

S'adi Yusuf

who now lives in Missouri

is both thematically and formally his most diverse and engaging work to date