The unfollowing
By: Lyn Hejinian
Publisher: Omnidawn Publishing
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 89
ISBN-13: 9781632430151
Subjects: Grief; Poetry; American poetry
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.