The season of lilacs is monstrousFrancesca Kritikos The season of lilacs is monstrous is a study in contradictions: candied almonds that break teeth, lilacs that can't be milked, getting the things you want then breaking them like glass. Francesca Kritikos writes hunger and gluttony, violence and power, sex and shame with equal parts care and severity. Brutal in their precision and cutting in their spareness, these poems hold beauty and love and all that one sanctifies up to the

'Words rarely fail us

The pieces are not linked

Nowak illustrates not just what poetry means

and as a moral contribution it remains incomparable

getuigenissen en vrouwelijke ervaringen en probeert in poëzie het ongeziene adem te geven

written in Spanish

over de middeleeuwen vragen mijn vage herinneringen mij: herverduidelijk

buzz and moan

this selection charts not only the development of a great poet but also of sixty years of American life

presence and relation

Aleksandr Poesjkin… Allen brengen ze gedichten die stuk voor stuk heel nadrukkelijk te maken hebben met muziek in al haar verschijningsvormen

and a perpetual longing to out-think time