Washing My Hair With Nettles

In Washing My Hair with Nettles, Emilia Ivancu describes a natural world that lives as profoundly and passionately as the people who inhabit it. The landscape of her poetry resonates with soul and animism: mountains dream of music, wild creatures heal wounds, and women tread the thin line between modern day reality and traditional myth with delicate respect. Dark mythology, our pagan roots and the duality of nature, in both its destructive and its nourishing forces, are all here in this evocative, unsettling poetry collection.

Emilia Ivancu is a poet, translator and researcher. Her poetry collections include Jocul de a nu fi mai mult decat sunt/Gra w to, aby nie byc wiecej niz jestem and Samanii si poetii. Her other books include Travels with Steinbeck in Search of America and The Birth of Trystan and Other Poems/Nasterea lui Tristan si alte poeme. Diarmuid Johnson is a journalistic and editor. Author and co-author of many books, he is also an accomplished musician, and his flute-playing features on various recordings.