The White Stones Asha Karami both world-shaking and exquisitely mundane

both world-shaking and exquisitely mundane

at once reenacts trauma and narrates our historical death – how we have died and how we survive within this cyclical structure

Paul van Ostaijen

These poems consider elegy

The White Stones Asha Karami both world-shaking and exquisitely mundaneJ. H. Prynne J. H. Prynne is Britains leading late modernist poet. His work, as it has emerged since the 1960s, when he was close to Charles Olson and Edward Dorn, is marked by a remarkable combination of lyricism and abstraction, at once austere and playful. The White Stones is a book that is central to Prynnes career and poetics, and it constitutes an ideal introduction to the achievement and vision of a legendary but in America still little known