'My Life' is now firmly established in the postmodern canon
it is joined by three poems from du Bouchet’s Laisses (1979)
‘Buitenissig en exuberant… Afwisselend burlesk
but a different means of describing the existing world
Goes on now except) wilde dood 'My Life' is now firmlyRyan Skrabalak Goes on now except), Ryan Skrabalaks second book, is a schematic of grief for and in the machinery of thinking. The ways that memory and grief saturate, colorize, fabricate, elidetheir malleability, their structuring force. And the ways memory goes on, carried across these poems by Skrabalaks driftless, stochastic treble clef of flow states and Interstates, of mountains, motels, and Dollar Generals, and by his sharp bass line of dissent