The Cheapest France in Town The Book of Sleep

The Cheapest France in Town The Book of SleepSeo Jung Hak (trans. Megan Sungyoon) The elusive, distant, almost disembodied voice of Korean poet Seo Jung Haks English language debut examines interiorities that seem familiar, yet whose ordinariness rises to the level of the uncanny. Inspired by the commodification of arts, emotions, and ideologies, these poemswritten over a span of 18 years from 1999 to 2017parody the very act of writing amid worn out rhetorical tropes, in a tone that is at times

or the long cataclysm of climate emergency

Bovendien onthult hij in een nawoord hoe Eliot het pijnlijkste geheim uit zijn privé-leven prijsgeeft in een ingenieus gecodeerde vorm

not a bardlike but a birdlike song […] something like a goldfinch tremolo

from fairy tales to the tallying of land torn by fateful past

They are composed entirely of non-sequiturs

Het was het begin van een grote carrière als puntdichter

Erín Moure

Whither Fanon

part metaphysical reckoning

body parts and decorative elements such as lace ribbons

It brings together poems written between 2014 and 2020 drawn from six volumes of poetry

gathers work by one of the most significant poets of the Black Mountain and Beat generation