Poetry. James Byrne's first book to be published in America navigates personal and socio-political worlds, journeying through Burma, Libya, and Syria along with documenting the poet's years in New York City and subsequent return to England. This is a flexible poetry written "on the hoof," nomadic and innovative, with imagery and language dexterously sparring. Byrne embraces Maurice Blanchot's avowal that the fragmentary is permanent, "beyond fracturing,...
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