Delirious Verse A New English Grammar They’re essays about life

They’re essays about life

is the axis of this startling work of overlapping arcs and varying approaches

the soundtrack never stops

there is yet something about Dobran’s clear-eyed view out onto the actual existing world that bestows a kind of proleptic clarity on the Skinner box of the present: the poetic defamiliarization at play is not the techno-stunned alienation of modernism but something older and more stoic

Delirious Verse A New English Grammar They’re essays about lifeAmelia Rosselli This publication presents an English translation of a talk given by the poet Amelia Rosselli in the early 1980s, during which she read aloud and elaborated on her seminal essay Metrical Spaces. As well as a transcription of Rossellis talk, the book includes a scrupulous new translation of Metrical Spaces by Jennifer Scappettone and a critical afterword by Andrea di Serego Alighieri.