Toxicon and Arachne is the culmination of eight years of engagement with lyric under a regime of global and personal catastrophes
Slangen krioelen in de sarcofaag van het heden
geschreven tussen 1990 en nu
dus wordt de wraak een sentimentele aangelegenheid
the state of contemporary Dutch politics and – via Susan Sontag’s Illness as Metaphor – the rhetoric surrounding her disease
Snooty Tipoffs Willem Jan Otten Toxicon and Arachne is theJ. H. Prynne 326pp, plus endpapers. 281 poems, in five numbered sections, amassing between them eleven epigraphs (from Samuel Beckett, Plenty Coups, John Gay, James Schuyler, and Christian Wolff, among other sources).