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. Outrage, hilarity, anxiety, and ribaldry are not easily separated in the play of human emotions. And they are all the proper, anarchic medium for staying alive.
- ISBN10 1632430150
- ISBN13 9781632430151
- Publish Date 17 May 2016
- Publish Status Transferred
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Omnidawn Publishing
- Format Paperback
- Pages 96
- Language English