The Book of the Peony by Gaspar Orozco, trans. by Mark Weiss Clive James fifty-six poets speak to what

fifty-six poets speak to what love means to them right here

and grapples with the difficult realities of the workplace and relationships

following two earlier

Due for publication 8/2/18 by Faber

interpretations

The Book of the Peony by Gaspar Orozco, trans. by Mark Weiss Clive James fifty-six poets speak to whatGaspar Orozcos extraordinary Book of the Peony blew me away by a storm of quiet flame and blackness and nothing everythingness. I am writing this from Pont Aven, where I have come to write about colonies and gatherings of artists, before regaining (what an inappropri word,) and suddenly this poetry hits me in the Breton chill withI cant say whata dark blaze when I expected I have no idea what? I had been thinking ah, peony, like pense, like a beloved