Silk Work POETRY and a history of letters

and a history of letters that thinks through a mode of writing from the bottom

exploring "possibilities for speculating beyond recorded multiplicity

Has the American century ended

as he moves from place to place

En hoe stelt dat nieuwe land

Silk Work POETRY and a history of lettersImogen Cassels In Silk Work, Imogen Cassels debut collection, desire and grief are a double edged subject, elucidated through a kind of lyric diffidence. Forms, translations, folksongs, geographies of longing, and the work of memory are interplayed, though always with the haunting implication that the words we use to document our lives are never quite enough. As they weave multiple sources from literature, philosophy, visual art and history into ways