Michael Palma

Surfing the Torrent

Arts & Literature

“Surfing the Torrent provides the reader with two books in one: a chapbook of free verse poems from a long-ago sojourn in Greece, marked by rhythmic mastery and vivid imagery, and a full-length collection of poems written over many years, exhibiting a variety of styles, moods, and subjects—blunt satires, touching elegies, philosophical and eschatological meditations—and characterized by the formal skill that Jonathan Chaves has displayed throughout his distinguished career as a translator.”