The Unfollowing You Can Be the Last Leaf De vrees om iemand te

De vrees om iemand te worden die de ander niet kan hebben – ‘om de verkeerde mens om je beenderen te vormen’ – vormt het grootste gevaar voor het maar al te herkenbare en hoopvolle verlangen naar groei

a golden young man

part feminist ars poetica

Dub poetry plays with revealing and concealing

resounding with loneliness and isolation

The Unfollowing You Can Be the Last Leaf De vrees om iemand teLyn 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,