Days of Earthly Exile by Alexandra Sashe Virginia Astley he takes us by the

he takes us by the hand and shows us owls and fireworks

who seemed to want to establish the Spanish avant-garde as an independent force

had told me about a Japanese rope bondage (shibari) club called Bound

' – Michael Symmons Roberts

Days of Earthly Exile by Alexandra Sashe Virginia Astley he takes us by theAlexandra Sashe is a Russian poet who now lives in Austria, and writes in English, her fourth language. This is her third collection, all from Shearsman, following Antibodies (2014) and Convalescence Dance (2017). A poet whose work is infused with a kind of religious ecstasy, her work has its roots in the work of Paul Celan and the mystical thinkers of the Eastern Church.