I Think We're Alone Now by Abigail Parry Sherko Bekas ‘God first thought time itself/Was

‘God first thought time itself/Was flawed but time was God’s first mirror

Eriugena's pithy formulation of neo-Platonism—omnia quae sunt lumina sunt—echoes forth in Pound's Pisan Cantos as "all things that are are lights

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Verse Matters harnesses the power of everyday stories

Know Thy Audience

I Think We're Alone Now by Abigail Parry Sherko Bekas ‘God first thought time itself/WasI Think We're Alone Now was supposed to be a book about intimacy: what it might look like in solitude, in partnership, and in terms of collective responsibility. Instead, the poems are preoccupied with pop music, etymology, surveillance equipment and cervical examination, church architecture and beetles. Just about anything, in fact, except what intimacy is or looks like. So this is a book that runs on failure, and also a book about failures: of