Out of the Matrix

"To discover such scope in the choice of themes - nature, science, travel, childhood, love, old age and eternity among them - is an unexpected delight for the mind as well as for the five senses. Anna Cole uses the English language with an unusually virtuoso touch, ransacking a vast treasury of language (and languages) to invent an idiom whose individualistic and mischievous correctnesses are the dazzling reward for the labours of love that inform a superb translator's art and craft in the presentation of poetry from languages we no longer feel to be 'foreign'." James Kirkup