14 × 14

Ian Monk's 14 × 14, here translated from the original French by Philip Terry and the author, is a collection of fourteen poems, interspersed with interludes, all of them fit between a prelude and coda-a sort of mille-feuille made with alternating layers of the lost and regained purity of love and the world's brutally intimate indifference.

Here for example why not while waiting

for elsewhere and having been somewhere else too

just recently in this ascent straight

towards wherever and anyhow le...