Adrian Piper
springing from the displacements of travel and returning
readers will experience Alben’s unorthodox alter-ego-thinking-out-louder approach with the same exhilaration as they might engage with art or jazz
Whether one reads Unexhausted Time as a long poem to step into or a series of titled and untitled fragments to pick up and cherish
and excerpts from her Covid Diary and Second World of Nature to early poems and sonnets found in the attic or rooted out in the UC San Diego archive
The Happy End / All Welcome Lieke Marsman Adrian PiperMnica de la Torre The Happy End All Welcome is set in a job fair inspired by the Nature Theater of Oklahoma from Kafkas unfinished novel Amerika: the largest theater company in the world is recruiting all kinds of employees. De la Torre builds, fastens, cuts, pastes, performs, and extrudes a variety of poems to suit this most serious situation comedy: poems as job interviews, poems as postings, poems as questionnaires, reports, speeches, lyrical rants