burlen en zalven
So claims Eileen Myles in their provocative and robust introduction to Pathetic Literature
But there does not yet exist a representative selection spanning her decades of poetic output
then Manson can only baffle and disappoint
Ivo van Strijtem
Fall Creek Liesbeth Lagemaat burlen en zalvenLyn Hejinian In a headlong rush, Lyn Hejinians Fall Creek swirls the literal with the littoral, sediment with sentiment, and inklings of sob shout or song inking clarity in book stone rustle word sending leaves down in further language At the quarter mark of the 21st Century, history swells its banks, sweeping the detritus of nature, culture, ideology and mythology, politics and philosophy, of humans, birds, fish and frogs, their flights, songs, cries