The Book of a Thousand Eyes Le Spleen de Paris always asking how we might

always asking how we might harness the power of naming without losing life’s ‘magic unknownness’

zijn laatste dichtbundel Bakermat (2018)

this version of Theresa Hak Kyung Cha’s masterpiece honors the author's original intentions and vision for the book

technology — that everywhere impinge locally and yet evade global apprehension

Critical Quarterly

The Book of a Thousand Eyes Le Spleen de Paris always asking how we mightLyn Hejinian Written over the course of two decades, The Book of a Thousand Eyes was begun as an homage to Scheherazade, the heroine of The Arabian Nights who, through her nightly tale telling, saved her culture and her own life by teaching a powerful and murderous ruler to abandon cruelty in favor of wisdom and benevolence. Hejinians book is a compendium of 'night works'lullabies, bedtime stories, insomniac lyrics, nonsensical mumblings, fairy tales,