The Serpent and the Fire Studio haiku The second issue

The second issue

and each presents a world of intense precision in language

is how it communicates recording—little black marks we call words

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The Serpent and the Fire Studio haiku The second issueed. Jerome Rothenberg and Javier Taboada The Serpent and the Fire breaks out of deeply entrenched models that limit American literature to work written in English within the present boundaries of the United States. Editors Jerome Rothenberg and Javier Taboada gather vital pieces from all parts of the Western Hemisphere and the breadth of European and Indigenous languages within: a unique range of cultures and languages going back several millennia, an