The Weather Joan Brossa

The Weather Joan BrossaLisa Robertson "Consider that we need to drink deeply from convention under faithfully lighthearted circumstances in order to integrate the weather, boredom utopic, with waking life. By 'integrate' we mean: to arc into a space without surface as if it were an inhabitable, flickering event. And by 'convention' we refer to our improprietous infiltration of the long citations of grooming, intimacy, and prognastication. Like flags or vanes, we signify an

Susana Thénon (1935–1991) is a key poet of the ’60s generation in Argentina

this brilliant mix of the poetic and the personal will find its home among the numerous fans of Keats’s enduring work

Besides writing on subjects such as racism

repeating and insisting

so unalone and shared and redshifted

but a desertion of the harmonies of the traditional lyric in favor of the disjunctions of prose

often writing under the name Grace Lake

Text lithograph printed on acid-free paper

as mornings and mossgreen I

the verbal churn that issues forth is as chilling as it is comic

and the pleasures of self-pity

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