Toxicon and Arachne Babeth Fonchie Fotchind and other workers of the

and other workers of the world

Babeth Fonchie Fotchind dicht over de verborgen kwetsbaarheden in het leven van de grootstedelijke

These poems bear the record of a state of heightened perception

and writer Eileen Myles

Toxicon and Arachne Babeth Fonchie Fotchind and other workers of theJoyelle McSweeney In Toxicon and Arachne, McSweeney allows the lyric to course through her like a toxin, producing a quiver of lyrics like poisoned arrows. Toxicon was written in anticipation of the birth of McSweeneys daughter, Arachne. But when Arachne was born sick, lived briefly, and then died, McSweeney unexpectedly endured a second inundation of lyricism, which would become the poems in Arachne, this time spun with grief. Toxicon and Arachne is