This collection of poems in English displays a surprisingly broad range of subjects and styles. Included is a debate on the nature of poetry itself, a farewell to pastoral, and a long, exotic poem about salvation, 'Mountains, Fall on Us', which brings to mind the author's already celebrated 'The Retreat of Ita Cagney'.

In this experimental work, the author risks personifying poems themselves so that they harangue and criticize each other. The Killing of Dreams reveals another facet of a perennially interesting writer.