Balam and Lluvia's House Format:Paperback

Balam and Lluvia's House Format:PaperbackMeet Balam, a boy who could be a cat. Meet Lluvia, a girl who could be the dawn. Balam and Lluvia are siblings who catch fireflies, bid farewell to their pet fish in the bathroom, and wait for Ratn Prez to collect their teeth. In Balam and Lluvia's House, the secret tastes and sounds of the everyday are waiting to be found. From the smell of crushed laurel leaves to the whispers of the peach tree in their back garden, every day is a day of discovery.

which draws not only on the traditions of Kafka and Poe

contributors’ biographies

adding a new preface from the author as well as notes from his Best Translated Book Award-winning translator Lisa Dillman

Over the last fifty years he has published 32 collections of his own poems and translated many works of major international poets and fiction writers

Hindi and Hebrew

turn up the collars of their raincoats

as with a sophisticated lecturer like Michel meeting up with an old flame at a literary conference

His poems have appeared in The American Poetry Review

the public announcements and the private gaffes

prom queens

partial memoir of his life as a writer and publisher for over thirty years

She is a Fellow of the Hawthenden International Writers Centre