Cute Girls Watch When I Eat AetherMaria Hardin Cute Girls Watch When I Eat Aether, the hallucinatory debut by artist poet Maria Hardin, teems with sonic roses and orchid birthing bodies. A member of Hekseskolen (The Witch School), Hardin draws on the twin fascinations of magic and visual art to craft sick sonnets as powerful as spells. Infected, inflamed, and gorging on language, this Anthropo scenic collection manages to be both Baroque and utterly contemporary, ornate and slangy, a

the spirit and the landscape

Argentina’s last dictatorship

Kim Hyesoon pushes the poetic envelope into the farthest reaches of the lyric universe

In this follow-up to her award-winning collection

and autobiographical detail

Part ‘hide and seek’

from his account of a day at the circus as a vision of creation to his own insistent and mystical search for truth

As the poet herself notes: “My name is Bernadette Mayer

these fictive-factive miniatures deploy original writing and extant quotation in a mode of pure invention

are captured in the music of metaphor and pure intention

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' the poems 'offer to the future this weird / fruit / which speaks in the mouths / of the thousands of innocents dead / in our black blood