Material Exercises Rode komeet to the daily wonder of

to the daily wonder of a poet's life in New York City and beyond – into lush-and sometimes horrible-dream worlds

Ward often betrays the procedural forms he tries to impose on his labyrinthine ruminations in order to remain faithfully engaged to the traditional task of the post-Romantic poet

and there is so much grief and love in this book

Peter France—who has been brilliantly translating Mandelstam’s work for decades—draws heavily from Mandelstam’s later poetry written in Voronezh

largely in the form of notebooks transcribed by his disciples

Material Exercises Rode komeet to the daily wonder ofBlanca Varela (trans. Carlos Lara) Flesh wounds, flies, flowers, and freedom. Blanca Varelas Material Exercises is a declaration of divine oblivion vis vis a violent mysticism. Here, no soul ascends to commune with a vengeful deity: salvation is not achieved from bodily punishment but found in the poetic possibility that emerges from the corporeal tension between tactility and spirituality, night and day, the cogito and the empirical, where language