The Everyday Life of DesignAlan Gilbert Bleak, absurd, elegiac, and politically incisive, Alan Gilberts sprawling epic poem is a document of these broken times, with a glint of hope for a better tomorrow. The Everyday Life of Design opens wide to the world in a variety of styles and voices. Ranging fast and low across current social, physical, and media landscapes while trapped in a world structured to extract as much data and capital as possible, these poems inhabit precarious

boredom utopic

and inheritance

each autonomous yet resonant with attachments and perversions as they come and go

cosmological and botanical obsessions

Upper Volta transcends borders and boundaries in its exploration of topics all too relevant in our current political climate

pink salt throwers

rich with fascinating background material on this essential work of Pound’s oeuvre

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the Simorgh bird

In The Murmuring Grief of the Americas

En ten slotte: de liefde

to test how it shapes the materiality of thinking