The Book of the Peony by Gaspar Orozco, trans. by Mark Weiss Clive James interpretations

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‘Nia Davies’ peculiar and witty All Fours is an interrogation of language and sexuality

but always of this place and time

following two earlier

The Book of the Peony by Gaspar Orozco, trans. by Mark Weiss Clive James interpretationsGaspar Orozcos extraordinary Book of the Peony blew me away by a storm of quiet flame and blackness and nothing everythingness. I am writing this from Pont Aven, where I have come to write about colonies and gatherings of artists, before regaining (what an inappropri word,) and suddenly this poetry hits me in the Breton chill withI cant say whata dark blaze when I expected I have no idea what? I had been thinking ah, peony, like pense, like a beloved