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Magns Sigurdsson spare poems pay rare attention to the minute revelations of nature rather than allowing the crudeness of machinery to bulldoze our sentiments. Through intricate wordplay and a titanic understanding of his native Icelandic, rendered with perfect tone by awardwinning translator Meg Matich, Sigurdsson creates tiny but arresting artifacts - fragments that scale an instant to an aeon, and a thousand millennia to a second. Whether describing the dwarf wasp's onemillimeter wingspan or the roots of a bonsai, he is a cosmologist of language, and Cold Moons is an intimate map of his distinctive universe.