NillingLisa Robertson Nilling is a sequence of 6 loosely linked prose essays about noise, pornography, the codex, melancholy, Lucretius, folds, cities and related aporias: in short, these are essays on reading. Lisa Robertson applies an acute eye to the subject of reading and writingtwo elemental forces that, she suggests, cannot be separated. For Robertson, a book is an intimacy, and with keen and insightful language, Nillings essays build into a lively yet

Sinan Antoon works in that tradition

Scorched by senility and nostalgia

performance and visual artists including Phillip Glass

and acts of renunciation

binnenplaatsen

an operatic form designed to make the reader chant if reading aloud

Verity Spott

earthbound and dishing our wages to bad clouds whose storage leaked plastics and chemicals in the ocean around us

including an open door or an outstretched hand

and elegy take form only to fall apart and reconfigure

with a skillful ear

both mothers and non-mothers