by Lyn Hejinian
Omnidawn, 2016
Paper: 978-1-63243-015-1
Library of Congress Classification PS3558.E4735A6 2016
Dewey Decimal Classification 811.54

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ABOUT THIS BOOK
The Unfollowing is a sequence of elegies, mourning public as well as personal loss. The grief is not coherent. Though the poems are each fourteen lines long, they are not sonnets but anti-sonnets. They are composed entirely of non sequiturs, with the intention of demonstrating, if not achieving, a refusal to follow aesthetic proprieties, and a rejection of the logic of mortality and of capitalism. Outrage, hilarity, anxiety, and ribaldry are not easily separated in the play of human emotions. And they are all the proper, anarchic medium for staying alive.

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