回 / Return Toxicon and Arachne At once intimate and open-hearted

At once intimate and open-hearted

not to rob me of whatever strength can lie at the core of this experience

maar het is het beste wat ik kan schrijven

en een tweede bundel met korte gedichten

Will Alexander’s The Combustion Cycle – a full 614 pages – focuses the reader’s attention on civilizations

回 / Return Toxicon and Arachne At once intimate and open-heartedEmily Lee Luan Rooted in the classical tradition of the Chinese reversible poem, Return is engaged in the act of looking backtoward an imagined homeland and a childhood of suburban longing, through migratory passages, departures, and etymologies, and into the various holes and voids that appear in the telling and retelling of history. The poems ask: What is feeling? What is melancholy? Can language translate either?