Poetry. Art. Bilingual Editon. Poems written in English translated into Italian by Rosemary Liedl Porta. Limited Editon of 400 numbered copies. The poetry and the ink drawings of birds places ordinary objects in a realm not necessarily of greater intensity, but somehow apart, etched, transformed by memory and artifice. Wudl's birds are also fragmented, seen from odd angles, only outline. In Ronk's "Allegory of Narration," birds become "they," and whoever they are "huddle at the window and stare/ as if they remembered when you couldn't stop."

Author City: LOS ANGELES, CA USA

Martha Ronk is the author of eight books, most recently Why/Why Not (University of California Press, 2003); IN A LANDSCAPE OF HAVING TO REPEAT, (Omnidawn, 2004), a PEN USA best poetry book; and VERTIGO (Coffee House Press, 2007), a National Poetry Series selection. She is also the author of Glass Grapes and Other Stories (BOA Editions, 2008) and teaches Renaissance literature and creative writing at Occidental College in Los Angeles. Tom Wudl, born in Bolivia, immigrated to Los Angeles and later received his BFA from Chouniard Art School. His painting has been shown throughout the U.S. and abroad, appearing in the Whitney Biennial in 1989. He exhibits at the L.A. Louver Gallery in Los Angeles.