Mud Songs: Elsehere Book I Author|Judy Stoffel and ghosts speak to the

and ghosts speak to the living

Fuhrman toasts to the cyclones that blow through our days and our nights

It is easy to forget we all have feelings failures triumphs and regrets

and the accidents that interrupt but also structure their journey serve as metaphors for the continuing struggles against inequality and for justice

with many skin tones

Mud Songs: Elsehere Book I Author|Judy Stoffel and ghosts speak to theMud Songs Elsehere Book I was selected by Patricia Killelea for the 2026 Fence Modern Poets Series Prize. Mud Songs Elsehere Book I, by polyglot poet, literary translator, and Fernando Pessoa scholar Patricio Ferrari, is a lyrical and archival journey through languages, inheritances, and crossings. This visionary collection by Ferrari reveals a multilingual poetics of arrival, attentive to histories of migration, loss, and renewal. Book I of the