The Golden Book of WordsBernadette Mayer This landmark early book (its original printing by Angel Hair Books was 750 copies, and they are now extremely rare) by the late great Bernadette Mayer is finally available again, both as a tribute and a joy to read. Mayer was a marvelous poet in every stage of her long and prolific writing life, but many fans especially relish her restless, powerful, sexy, and erudite early work. One of her signal elements is a certain deadpan wit,

Zijn verzamelde gedichten werden in 1993 uitgebracht onder de titel Lachen in een leeuw

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and scribbled notes on the backs of receipts for medicines you don’t know how they work

nonconformist life

Adam Zagajewski

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Manson offers an almost-potty-mouthed reworking of Rimbaud’s “Je est un autre” – “I is this constellated cupid stunt” – which seems to get to the heart of the matter (8)

a professional photographer during the Korean and Vietnam wars

fury and possibility