A Reaction to Someone Coming In The Beauty of Light

A Reaction to Someone Coming In The Beauty of LightWendy Lotterman 'Wendy Lotterman is a scientist of feeling, here presenting discoveries with surgical precision. If it's true that "no good thing can be saved from a three legged relay with the bad," then what forms the third leg? Maybe it's these cool, discomfiting lines, which invent a canny language for a "weird, denuded universe" where "the event postdates the mood it turned into." The lyric mode of A Reaction to Someone Coming In is intimate like

is poignant

in La rabbia (1963)

maar ook als radicale experimenten

Mirta Rosenberg (1951-2019) is a key poet of the ’80s generation in Argentina

Clark's presentation is both visually stunning and typographically radical

Anne Kawala

in Upper Volta Yanko González collects language from street corners

Click through for a folio compiled by the Poetry Foundation in celebration of the launch of the book

Kate Briggs

We both sat there

Featured pieces include Contra Diction (Speech Against Itself)

will find this book beckoning again and again to offer delicious writing