Lifeguard De kat van de muziekschool A compilation of modernity’s conditions

A compilation of modernity’s conditions needs to include insomnia

To read this book is to slink into a plum-black night where we hear 'the ghost rivers of Harlem play / light patches / in your good ear

Their letters are a record of both the high stakes and playful experiments that constitute the writing lives of two singular poets determined not just to engage with modern political and social life during decades of crisis and upheaval

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and the restructuring of shared worlds through the un/disciplined integration of discrete epistemes

Lifeguard De kat van de muziekschool A compilation of modernity’s conditionsSteve Malmude I didnt invent the world, but I felt it, said Charles Reznikoff late in the 1960s. I think he must have passed some kind of baton to Steve Malmude, whose work stands before us fresh in all senses. Born in New York City in 1940, Malmude is the author of four other books: Catting (1970); From Roses to Coal (1981); I Got To Know (1997); and The Bundle (2002). So three last century and now two in this one. Theres an air of perfection around