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.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Omnidawn
Published: 04/05/2016
ISBN: 9781632430151
Pages: 96
Weight: 0.30lbs
Size: 8.80h x 6.00w x 0.50d

Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 02/15/2016
Library Journal 04/01/2016 pg. 97