ArcanaStephen Jonas Beginning in the 1950s until his untimely death at age 49, Stephen Jonas (1921 1970) was an influential if underground figure of the New American Poetry. A gay African American poet of self obscured origins, heavily influenced by Ezra Pound and Charles Olson, the Boston based Jonas was a pioneer of the serial poem and an erudite mentor to such acknowledged masters as Jack Spicer and John Wieners, even as he lived a shadowy existence

human beings and nature

and I even feel that a real piece of her poem is adamantly not here and that is her privacy

providing inspired close readings of Keats

Andrew Wynn Owen

and collages by Wieners

many of which began as literary works—Arabian Nights

intertextual voice that refuses arrest by sentimentality

The White Stones is a book that is central to Prynne’s career and poetics

humiliation

sadé mucks up orthography to investigate disorienting practices of refusal and wade through the fundamental feltness and unintelligibility of thingness

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I'M A POLLINATOR