The Everyday Life of Design and Leaves and playfulness of Bashō's originals

and playfulness of Bashō's originals

and the newly-completed The 45th Parallel

Showing all the control of voice one would expect from a poet of her rare skill

The Men are a riddle

with some attention to the Epodes and Epistles

The Everyday Life of Design and Leaves and playfulness of Bashō's originalsAlan Gilbert Bleak, absurd, elegiac, and politically incisive, Alan Gilberts sprawling epic poem is a document of these broken times, with a glint of hope for a better tomorrow. The Everyday Life of Design opens wide to the world in a variety of styles and voices. Ranging fast and low across current social, physical, and media landscapes while trapped in a world structured to extract as much data and capital as possible, these poems inhabit precarious