Text Me

A bilingual English-Italian collection of love poems, Text Me/Dimmelo per SMS expresses through language and metaphor the many ways to say "e;I love you."e; Calabr's poems often evolve from the experiences of the body: from sensual impressions, "e;Your cheek on my weary shoulder / the day pales, your lips pale / up, up, one more wing-beat / till we run out of oxygen"e;; to image, "e;In cold blood / the ice contrail of a Phantom jet /stabs the blue. / Like a blade in honey / you plunge your gaze into my heart"e;; to memory , "e;We met and I kissed you / already consumed by the need to betray you."e; Although rooted in Calabr's Mediterranean, these poems have a universality which give voice to our common burden of love, sorrow and guilt.