Not Us Now Ricardo Domeneck

Not Us Now Ricardo DomeneckZo Hitzig In her vertiginous second collection, Zo Hitzig delivers an astonishing act of ventriloquy in reverse speaking not through the voice of a singular, lyric I, but through a consciousness that seems to have amassed itself out of the detritus of human life. The future world of Not Us Now is remembered in an even further future, where language is both the survivor and the cargo of an earthly wreckage. Crushed under the weight of collection and

There’s levitation

over de onmogelijkheid dingen achter je te laten

vertaling Jan H

rants about politics

Warsh's translation is reproduced in this fiftieth anniversary edition alongside the French original

and her rightful place in the canon of twentieth-century American poetry

Is the poet channeling the crystal to access its message or is the crystal channeling the poet

stemmy things is a vision unraveling

mood shift and modes of inquiry

die Rilke een paar gedichten ter beoordeling stuurt

This is the legend of a she-dandy's life

skepticism of language and its institutions