The Book of a Thousand Eyes POETRY in een tweeling-uitgave

in een tweeling-uitgave

stylistically and conceptually varied

here are love poems about how queer intimacies invent political and poetic forms

and then a new chain begins

The Book of a Thousand Eyes POETRY in een tweeling-uitgaveLyn Hejinian Written over the course of two decades, The Book of a Thousand Eyes was begun as an homage to Scheherazade, the heroine of The Arabian Nights who, through her nightly tale telling, saved her culture and her own life by teaching a powerful and murderous ruler to abandon cruelty in favor of wisdom and benevolence. Hejinians book is a compendium of 'night works'lullabies, bedtime stories, insomniac lyrics, nonsensical mumblings, fairy tales,