The Lights Éen gedicht is nooit genoeg

The Lights Éen gedicht is nooit genoegBen Lerner The Lights is a constellation of verse and prose, voice mails and vignettes, songs and felt silences, that brings the personal and the collective into startling relation. Sometimes the scale is intimate, quiet, and sometimes the poems are sweeping, Orphic experiments in the animation of our common world. Written over a span of fifteen years, The Lights registers the pleasures, risks, and absurdities of making art and family and meaning

“all the worlds

in al zijn kleuren en facetten

Howe creates an intriguing nexus that explores the darker

Hayes has been the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship

echoing out as the words of a potent phrase are permutated into an expanding ripple of meanings which they did not seem to be capable of when they were struck and then stuck into that phrase

a consuming memorial fire

is now available in paperback

a lie spread across low-rent apartment complexes

quarantine quatrains

Vrouwkje Tuinman

een ‘onveilige zoektocht in taal’ over vrouwelijke belichaamde herinnering en rouw

has been translating Ishii for over thirty years and captures the rhythmic pulse and turn of his “Poetry … harmful