In the Pines Elaine Kahn Real-life speech is pinned to

Real-life speech is pinned to the page

to the world’s astonishment

many Hmong refugees recounted stories of a mysterious substance that fell from planes during their escape from Laos starting in the mid-1970s

Paperback | 272 pages | Penguin Modern Classics | 24 June 2021 | 199mm x 16mm x 131mm

In the Pines Elaine Kahn Real-life speech is pinned toAlice Notley Alice Notley is considered by many to be among the most outstanding of living American poets. Notley's work has always been highly narrative, and her new book mixes short lyrics with long, expansive lines of poetry that often take the form of prose sentences, in an effort "to change writing completely." The title piece, a folksong like lament, makes a unified tale out of many stories of many people; the middle section, "The Black