Ransom by Michael Symmons Roberts
PBS Recommendation Spring 2021 Jay G Ying shows his respect for language

shows his respect for language and love for the craft of poetry

the Antipodes

With every airport lounge a new starting point

Seed gives us people who are helpless in the face of absurdity

and in his despair speaks to other exiled Kurdish poets (Nali

Ransom by Michael Symmons Roberts<br> <b> PBS Recommendation Spring 2021</b> Jay G Ying shows his respect for languageRansom, the new collection from Michael Symmons Roberts, is an intense and vivid exploration of liberty and limit, of what it means to be alive, and searches for the possibility of hope in a fallen, wounded world. The poems in Ransom display all the lyrical beauty and metaphysical ambition for which his work is acclaimed, but with a new urgency, a ragged edge to what the Independent described as his 'dazzling elegance'. At the heart of this new book