The Rosebud Variations by Jaydn DeWald Sarah Wardle danger or intense concentration

danger or intense concentration

Merwin is arguably the most influential American poet of the last half-century – an artist who has transfigured and reinvigorated the vision of poetry for our time

remarkable verse they wrote when their older sibling tragically took his own life

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The Rosebud Variations by Jaydn DeWald Sarah Wardle danger or intense concentrationIn this debut collection of poetry and prose, Jaydn DeWald explores the relationships between individuality and community, queerness and the bourgeois nuclear family, genre expectations and a postmodern awareness, even distrust, of literary production. Can the imagination forge intimacy, love? Impact history? Or do imaginers merely exile themselves from the world? In a series of obsessive poetic sequences, the speaker narrators of The Rosebud