(A sequence about vaccination features a variety of animated germs for different diseases).
Sleigh's fifth volume of poetry includes a sequence about Sept. 11, 2001, and three poems adapted from Ovid.
In a sequence about a young man whose undiagnosed head pains make him forgetful and distracted, for instance, the narrative repeatedly breaks off and doubles back on itself.
(Badiou appears in Godard's most recent film, "Film Socialisme," in a sequence about Jewish identity. I discussed Godard's self-proclaimed isolation and its role in such reflections here).
In a sequence about her imbalanced relationship with a lifelong friend, or another about her compulsive use of internet porn, she's trying too hard to show how outrageous or neurotic she is.
Eventually, I began to shape these poems into a sequence, about half of which appears in my last collection, The Customs House, under the title Laurels and Donkeys (the remainder of the series will be included in my next book).
