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Relief is a book of eleven poems that revolve around familiar experiences of discontinuous time: illness

domestic and civic spaces in an unique and illusory voice

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which follows a different kind of journey: a family of refugees who have fled to the West from conflict in an unspecified Middle Eastern country

The Nonconformist's Memorial Poetry's Geographies zoekt jou gaat niet zozeerSusan Howe The Nonconformists Memorial is a gathering of four long sequences that underscores Susan Howes reputation as one of the leading experimentalists writing today. Howe is a poet of language in history whose work resonates back through Melville, Dickinson, and Shelley to the seventeenth century Metaphysicals and Puritans (the nonconformism of the title), and forward again to T. S. Eliot and the abstract expressionists. The sequences fall into