Ostentation of Peacocks Buthayna al-Nasiri

Ostentation of Peacocks Buthayna al-NasiriThe funny thing about Daniel Kanes book, given its rather showy title, is how unostentatious his poems really are. Excessive, yes, gorgeously so; and out there in bravely following his, or his given languages, inclinations. What is anything that can be observed or thought and how do our words account for, and even augment, that sketchy existence? How is a poem a fact if anything can be? Peculiar to Kane is his often headlong, always nimble variant on

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