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Lieke Marsman has evolved a stringent poetics of limit and capacity
The carefully cleaved phrases accrue into strange moments of fascination
Staying Alive has reached a wider readership than any other anthology of contemporary poetry
translated here from the German and collected for the first time
The Caprices by James Byrne Valley Press Lieke Marsman has evolved aThe Caprices is a sequence of poems written in response to Goya's Los Caprichos, a series of aquatints in the Prado Museum in Madrid. Each of the 80 poems is illustrated by the etching to which it responds, and shares its title. As James Byrne writes in his introduction: "Goya's Los Caprichos are a series of real life nightmares that haunt the twenty first century. [] Arguably, the world we live in today is more terrifying than Goya's Spain because in
