The Rose Signe Gjessing makes the poet's work in

makes the poet's work in the context of his life understandable as it never has been before in English

schreef hij in een brief aan de Poolse vertaler Hulewicz

He'd jot down phrases in a notebook or dictate them into his phone

A number of the poems are inspired or influenced by a technique of the international literary avant-garde group Oulipo

The Serpent and the Fire breaks out of deeply entrenched models that limit “American” literature to work written in English within the present boundaries of the United States

The Rose Signe Gjessing makes the poet's work inAriana Reines Fury is very lustful A body concealing its hearts desire Has a certain texture A tang or an edge if you will That the openhearted cannot match And when exactly does the deceitful Heart open? At climax. from 'The Hanged Man' Drawing on the history of 'romance' as the troubadours knew it and the titular flowers ancient allegories for sexuality and mystery, Reines plunges into feminine archetypes to explore masculine pain: "I have always