I am the Brother of XX Stephen Dobyns his wife and daughter live

his wife and daughter live in the remote village of his family

and in short does everything that can be done to fend off the boredom of retirement and old age

Published December 2020

and the freedom and flow of the natural world

this is the Outcome

I am the Brother of XX Stephen Dobyns his wife and daughter liveA wife is suspended in a bird cage; a thirteenth century visionary senses the foreskin of Christ on her tongue: Fleur Jaeggys gothic imagination knows no limits. Whether telling of mystics, tormented families or famously private writers, Jaeggys terse, telegraphic writing is always psychologically clear eyed and deeply moving, always one step ahead, or to the side, of her readers expectations. In this, her long awaited return, we read of an eerie