So Much for Life Wulk

So Much for Life WulkMark Hyatt (ed. Sam Ladkin & Luke Roberts) Scarcely published in his lifetime, Hyatts work survives thanks to the intervention of poets and friends who saved his manuscripts and kept his poems in circulation. Queer in the decades before Gay Liberation; Romani; incarcerated in prisons and asylums; illiterate into adulthood: its tempting to read Hyatt according to the familiar script of the doomed poet, resounding with loneliness and isolation. But his

suspension

the dreamscapes of capitalist infancy

Klimaatdichters

destined to be a classic

and the yearning for queer utopia on stolen land

holds fast to our fragile utopias

" chiseling away at the familiar lines to reveal surprising new poems

no soul ascends to commune with a vengeful deity: salvation is not achieved from bodily punishment but found in the poetic possibility that emerges from the corporeal tension between tactility and spirituality

As the poet herself notes: “My name is Bernadette Mayer

Ik zeg niet dat ik Pools ben

de wildgroei

and a lifelong editor of Aqlam