The Close Chaplet Against the Regime of the Fluent Seeking the edges of form—where

Seeking the edges of form—where it exceeds itself

"The super-electron microscope Berg has used in her research shows the world's smallest particles—the vibrations of strings (belly buttons

as the cops forced her head through the doorframe

today i bought bread

"The Gorgeous Nothings is proof that one of our most important poets can still amaze and teach us new thing about the practice of poetry

The Close Chaplet Against the Regime of the Fluent Seeking the edges of form—whereLaura Riding The Close Chaplet is Laura Ridings first book, long out of print, originally published in 1926. Riding deliberately ceased writing poems after 1940, when she came to see poetry as irrevocably flawed as a means of expression. These poems demonstrate Ridings early desire to depart from the close and well tilled ground of traditional lyric poetry. In his introduction, Mark Jacobs writes that Riding identifies herself with the pre moment, the