Virgula Scenes of a Life at the Capital Associated with the New York

Associated with the New York School and subsequently inspiring the Language Poets

these poems consider change and permanence

He captures in his translation of Desnos the same music

voor de schrijn met het hart ben ik gekomen toegerust met wat

simultaneously spectral and ancient

Virgula Scenes of a Life at the Capital Associated with the New YorkSasje Janssen (trans. Michele Hutchison) I long for a full stop, but my Virgulas are wary of employing them, I press them close as though death were breathing down my neck Virgula, the Latin word for a comma, is what moves thoughts and languages forward and what stops the stillness. In Sasja Janssens award winning collection, the comma becomes much more than a punctuation mark. Virgula is invoked as a muse and a companion; she is called on in every