Love Poems in Bloomington, MN

“Love is the finest,” writes Jaime Sabines, “the most shuddering, / the most unendurable, silence.”
Available for the first time as a complete selection in English,
Love Poems
presents Jaime Sabines’ powerful erotic verse in an exceptional translation by Irish Canadian poet Colin Carberry.
Jaime Sabines
, Mexico’s most influential modern poet, was born in Chiapas in 1926. He received numerous literary awards and honors over the course of his career. Sabines died in Mexico City in 1999.