The UnfollowingLyn Hejinian The Unfollowing is a sequence of elegies, mourning public as well as personal loss. The grief is not coherent. Though the poems are each fourteen lines long, they are not sonnets but anti sonnets. They are composed entirely of non sequiturs, with the intention of demonstrating, if not achieving, a refusal to follow aesthetic proprieties, and a rejection of the logic of mortality and of capitalism. As the author sees it, outrage, hilarity,

poems culled from years of notebooks that are

Stephen Sartarelli has chosen poems from every period of Pasolini’s poetic oeuvre

and the working day

” and cogitates on life—so furnished with all its illusions and ironies—in an age consistently defined by its constant decline

voices speak who Melgard herself is not - or not yet - but who the poet operates in relation to becoming (potential parent

” In pared-down lines

both new and familiar readers

now called ‘G’

desire travels everywhere to its surprisingly specific destinations--to body parts aroused in their fashion

Ban moves into an incarnate and untethered presence

transformation

movements 1—5