*A New English GrammarJeff Dolven The poems in *A New English Grammar begin from the bad sentences in traditional grammar, the ones marked with an asterisk in the handbooks. They are experiments in making a new language where the counterexample*he had had gone, *weve got any milk, *he was recognizing hercan be exemplary, and therefore also experiments in imagining new worlds. Each poem is accompanied by an exacting, authoritative, intermittently slant facing page

Value here is chosen conviviality

but also a willingness to explore the possibility that the world

The volume’s opening poem pays homage to the innovative Nigerian-Yoruban author Amos Tutuola

the collection tackles interior and exterior politics—of both the body and society

narratieve gedichten die gebaseerd zijn op herinneringen aan de jaren veertig van de vorige eeuw

poems and fragments were composed through engagement with the Women’s Art Library in 2014

er is een constructie waarbij de geldstromen via eendagsmachines

it ends with an encomium to the modernist Malagasy poet Jean-Joseph Rabearivelo—two writers whose luminous art suffered 'colonial wrath through refraction

afgewezen minnaars

inspired leaps and free associations spills forth from a choir living in oppression and transience

hair as a metonym for the self in poetry and fiction

'geef mij heden mijn dagelijks brood en een nooduitgang'