" 'Fear is the liquid state of / pain as a wound is the solid state of / fear.'
Mariano Peyrou's pulsating and mesmerizing meditation on love, time, and memory, here elegantly translated by Terence Dooley, is at once minimalist and expansive: its subtle repetition of key nouns and verbs creates a dreamscape in which 'two parallel lines meet / in your eyes.' If parallel, how can these lines meet? The path to understanding repeatedly confronts a mountain, because 'Similarity / and difference only become apparent / with time.' Peyrou's Possibilities in Shade is a beautiful love poem, an inspired ode to self-recognition." -Marjorie Perloff

Mariano Peyrou (b.1971) is the author of nine volumes of poetry, four of fiction and two of essays. His most recent publications are 'Lo de dentro fuera' (2021), and the essay 'Oídos que no ven. Contra la idea de música intelectual' (2022) y the long poem 'Diciembres iniciales' (2022). Peyrou is a musician and a graduate in Social Anthropology. He lives in Madrid, where he works as a teacher of Creative Writing, History of Jazz and the Aesthetics of Music. He is also a frequent translator.