Cold Fire by Verónica Zondek, trans. by Katherine Silver A E Stallings with its vivid enactment of

with its vivid enactment of how

At turns both confessional and political

which traces the fate of an inspirational explorer who could adapt to months of near-starvation in sub-zero Antarctica but not to later life back in civilisation

thriving or long-since shut

has worked to establish innovative poetry archives at Newcastle University

Cold Fire by Verónica Zondek, trans. by Katherine Silver A E Stallings with its vivid enactment ofThe English language debut of Vernica Zondek, COLD FIRE is a book length meditation on the wind in whichaccording to Eliot Weinbergerthe renowned Chilean poet demonstrates that to think about the wind is to think about everything. COLD FIRE is a timeless chronicle of the human facing the dread and magic of its own materiality. This book length poem, written in a voice as piercing and tentative as the elements themselves and translated into English by