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 waitingfor elsewhere and having been somewhere else toojust recently in this ascent straighttowards wherever and anyhow leading toneedful things to fill in the timeyour brains too or what's left of them dunnoas for me what's on the box tonight spare a dimeand what about going to a museum or the opera lol?