Status Updates From Poems 1918-1936: The Comple...

I greatly admire this book but there are large swaths of it that I was completely disinterested in. That said, his is a singular achievement—an idiosyncratic artistic vision that deserves to be preserved. Think of him as a more voluble, less angry David Ignatow.

thank you to goddess Mitski for introducing me to his work, i’m absolutely in love

in the black hearse the old man.

No longer secretly grieving
that his children are not strong enough to go the way he wanted to go
and was not strong enough.