I Love Information Yves Bonnefoy

I Love Information Yves BonnefoyCourtney Bush Egret feathers. Pulverized chickpeas. A "faint but constant series of ovals and lines" that, remarkably, spell the name Penelope. "Nobody owns the meaning of these things," Courtney Bush writes, but this does not stop the poet from seeking, from "reading meaning in the garbage" and in the flowers growing there. What does she seek? Not facts. Instead, something transcendent and mysterious, knowledges that can only be unlocked through

is slapstick melancholy

' – Kristin Dykstra

and translations for more than thirty years

Half poems

"—John Ashbery

and Gorée are evoked

giving voice to country people and hard country lives untainted by the propaganda of Fascism

” Giraudon writes in one of the poems

Anarchic and beautifully personal

When the Smoke Cleared contains the entirety of Betcha Ain’t

includes seven previously uncollected works

Hij zag als eerste het uitzonderlijke talent van Lucebert