Valley of the Many-Colored GrassesRonald Johnson Ronald Johnson's underground classic of visionary and queer poetics, Valley of the Many Colored Grasses, has been legendarily hard to find for over 50 years. In this book of poems, Johnson creates a specifically North American vision that references everything from ancient Native American myths to Johnny Appleseed, from Charles Darwin to the Wizard of Oz, microcosmically transforming the vast open expanse of the plains into delicate

En in onvindbare tuinen achter de Schaarse Bergen

While many of his peers were writing poems about battlefields and faraway exiles

Epigrammatic

Cavalcanti

maar ook met onheilspellende verzen

Dodie Bellamy

Wolf’s debut collection won the Peter Huchel Prize in 2006—she was its youngest recipient

everyday language (it is the language of the working classes with which he identifies)

‘instant’ fables of The Cheapest France in Town

companionable ‘I’ travels the mind’s landscapes in hope of refuge and transformation amid these displaced moments in time

and to cultures

sprookjes en dat vreemde vermoeden: dat het misschien wel goed komt