Love Poems

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By (author): Jaime Sabines

Translated by: Colin Carberry

“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.