Voice/Over

Selected Poems

Olga Cabral

Voice/Over is a collection from seven volumes of this important lyric poet, including Cities and Deserts (1959), The Darkness in My Pockets (1976), In the Empire of Ice (1980), and The Green Dream (1990). Her work has received the praises of Michael Gold, Walter Lowenfels, Thomas McGrath, and Alicia Ostriker among others.

“Impassioned, lyrical work with history’s fingerprints all over it.”—Grace Paley

On the desert I saw
a bull gore the sun.
The vast corrida was stained
with the sun’s lifeblood. The clouds
could not staunch it.
Then night
came on bellowing:
Muerte! Muerte! Everything
stopped.
But in a moment
vibrating their wings of
fire
vast swarms of stars
over me like
bees.

             —“On the Desert”

6 x 9 inches • 122 pages • ISBN 0-931122-73-2 • $9.95