Instructions for the Lovers The Conference of the Birds

Instructions for the Lovers The Conference of the BirdsDawn Lundy Martin A taut, tender collection of poems woven with sadness and loss dealing with aging, attachments, and the precarity of life. 'Dawn Lundy Martins poems read like a real time excavation of what poetry can and cant do,' writes Maggie Nelson. In Instructions for The Lovers, her most stripped down, direct work to date, Martin creates a poetic field dense with thought, image, and sound as she reflects on her relationship with her mother,

maar blijven bijeen als de raten waarin honing wordt verzameld

guiltlessly through a simulacrum of death’s corridors’

Through Peirce and his wife Juliette

and French coexist with unadorned social critique

drawings by Jennifer Macdonald

which presented all of Emily Dickinson's late compositions on envelopes

Or like a roof without edge or frame

and moment in history

As Khaïr-Eddine writes in 'Black Nausea

one proposes a sex ed that takes into account persuasion and pleasure

Though the poems are each fourteen lines long

) Russo's writing