Goodlord: An EmailElla Frears Taking the form of one long email addressed to an estate agent, Goodlord is a fictional memoir of habitation, a genre defying novelistic text that beautifully evokes the people and places of our livesthe spaces of work, those that may or may not be home, sites of trauma and ecstasy. Showing all the control of voice one would expect from a poet of her rare skill, Ella Frears has created a book that is as funny as it is harrowing, and

First issued by Tsunami Editions in 1993

migrant workers

and meditation

written in the same stanzaic form

Tupelo Quarterly

de Hendrik de Vriesprijs en de Constantijn Huygens-prijs voor zijn oeuvre

In moving elegies to Yukio Mishima and Genji (the Shining Prince)

and angles

fugitive kinship

Twee engelen komen elkaar tegen en groeten elkaar niet

Niedecker's lyric voice is one of the most subtle and sensuous of the twentieth century

we honor the holiness of your speech and of your whole being