To begin ...

As the twentieth century fades out
the nineteenth begins
.......................................again
it is as if nothing happened
though those who lived it thought
that everything was happening
enough to name a world for & a time
to hold it in your hand
unlimited.......the last delusion
like the perfect mask of death

Tuesday, June 9, 2020

A Book of Infernos, Now in Print



An announcement from Lunar Chandelier Collective:

We’re thrilled to announce the release of A Book of Infernos by Jerome Rothenberg. You can buy A Book of Infernos exclusively through our website, here:

https://www.lunarchandeliercollectivepress.com

Here’s Rothenberg’s description (or tegument, or thesis, or passage through the rear-view mirror) of this book, from the back cover:

34 poems and a coda derived loosely
from the cantos and circles of Dante’s Inferno,
for the infernos and hungers of the worlds around us

The bodies stored in crates
& torched

how they remind us of the fires
burning down whole cities

from which an angel rises
blinded

in a gulf of tears


You can also now pre-order Alex Hampshire’s National Water from our site, or pick up any releases you might have missed, like Under the Window by Joel Newberger; Amoretti by Billie Chernicoff; The Partitas by Lila Dunlap; The House of the Devil by Tamas Panitz; Reasons to Resist by Robert Kelly;–– and others!

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