Snooty Tipoffs Joyelle McSweeney

Snooty Tipoffs Joyelle McSweeneyJ. H. Prynne 326pp, plus endpapers. 281 poems, in five numbered sections, amassing between them eleven epigraphs (from Samuel Beckett, Plenty Coups, John Gay, James Schuyler, and Christian Wolff, among other sources).

and collage

with additional gold ink to the outside

” we get a glimpse of de la Torre’s translation practice in action as she invites passers-by to participate in series of translation experiments during an artist residency in Madison Square Park

deskilled creative labor

The personal is continuously projected outwards and mirrored back through ruminations on climate catastrophe

is intrigerende en indringende poëzie

” he peers into the ruins—left by the winds of colonialism

wat kennis

and to what degree an audience can—sensibly

Met bundels als Air Stream Land Yacht en Methodist Hatchet (Griffin Poetry Prize 2012) maakte de Canadese Ken Babstock al furore in de Engelstalige poëziewereld

insurgent working class poetry community rising up across the globe

in which social force is felt intimately