The Rosebud Variations by Jaydn DeWald Sarah Wardle danger or intense concentration

danger or intense concentration

I would adapt what Joseph Brodsky said some thirty years ago of the great Les Murray [

Merwin is arguably the most influential American poet of the last half-century – an artist who has transfigured and reinvigorated the vision of poetry for our time

returns with a third Carcanet volume

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The Rosebud Variations by Jaydn DeWald Sarah Wardle danger or intense concentrationIn this debut collection of poetry and prose, Jaydn DeWald explores the relationships between individuality and community, queerness and the bourgeois nuclear family, genre expectations and a postmodern awareness, even distrust, of literary production. Can the imagination forge intimacy, love? Impact history? Or do imaginers merely exile themselves from the world? In a series of obsessive poetic sequences, the speaker narrators of The Rosebud