this book makes me want to write poems again
I hope it will have its own coherence as a series of memories and similes laid side by side: an antiphonal account of man in his world
and activist Essex Hemphill has been lovingly sustained through xeroxed copies of his few published works
and a testament to tenderness in the face of violence
In 2020 had de dichter een goed aantal gedichten bij elkaar
A Woman Looks Over Her Shoulder M.S. Redcherries this book makes me wantBrynja Hjlmsdttir (trans. Rachel Britton) In A Woman Looks Over Her Shoulder, written by contemporary Icelandic poet Brynja Hjlmsdttir and translated by Rachel Britton, one woman lives in a glass ball that is being shaken by someone else. This book of poems, however, is always shaking itself up, leaping between the extreme and the daily, the gross and the delicious, between being scared and being scary. These surreal, visceral, and somehow polite