Meanwhile Take My Hand

Whenever we're saddened everything looks dark,

When we're heartened, again, the world crumbles.

Every one of us keeps forever someone else's hidden side,

If it's a secret, if a mistake, if a gesture.

—from "May"

Kirmen Uribe has become one of the best-known Basque-language writers—an important contemporary voice from a vital but largely unknown language. Meanwhile Take My Hand presents Uribe's poetry to A...