The Ophelia Letters

The poems in the first half of The Ophelia Letters explore the interaction between self and place in ways both strange and loaded with magic: journeying to the Arctic with Werner Herzog stopping off in Scottish islands and English wildernesses revealing an electric language of the road that is both expansive and complex. In long title poem Tamás pours this fractured cut-throat lyricism into the figure of Shakespeare's Ophelia attempting to retrieve a silenced female voice from darkness to let the light in.