回 / Return Toxicon and Arachne Will Alexander’s The Combustion Cycle

Will Alexander’s The Combustion Cycle – a full 614 pages – focuses the reader’s attention on civilizations

At once intimate and open-hearted

black and brown women are simultaneously the body politic and the body ecstatic

1979 – a series edited by Bernadette Mayer and Lewis Warsh – this reprinted edition by London's Distance No Object (run by Luke Roberts and Amy Tobin) comes in large format and is perfect bound

回 / Return Toxicon and Arachne Will Alexander’s The Combustion CycleEmily Lee Luan Rooted in the classical tradition of the Chinese reversible poem, Return is engaged in the act of looking backtoward an imagined homeland and a childhood of suburban longing, through migratory passages, departures, and etymologies, and into the various holes and voids that appear in the telling and retelling of history. The poems ask: What is feeling? What is melancholy? Can language translate either?