The Everyday Life of Design and Leaves ' Of his savvy

' Of his savvy

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

and appendices provide a scholarly apparatus to situate Oliver and Prynne among the poets and publishers with whom they worked and socialized

and playfulness of Bashō's originals

Showing all the control of voice one would expect from a poet of her rare skill

The Everyday Life of Design and Leaves ' Of his savvyAlan Gilbert Bleak, absurd, elegiac, and politically incisive, Alan Gilberts sprawling epic poem is a document of these broken times, with a glint of hope for a better tomorrow. The Everyday Life of Design opens wide to the world in a variety of styles and voices. Ranging fast and low across current social, physical, and media landscapes while trapped in a world structured to extract as much data and capital as possible, these poems inhabit precarious