I Visit My Aunt in Montemarcello Diane di Prima earthbound and dishing our wages

earthbound and dishing our wages to bad clouds whose storage leaked plastics and chemicals in the ocean around us

the possibility of poetry

and humour

Relief is an intricately detailed and formally uneven affirmation of daily life

a satellite figure of the Metarealist (or Meta-metaphorist) literary movement of the 1980s-90s

I Visit My Aunt in Montemarcello Diane di Prima earthbound and dishing our wagesPhoebe Eccles Part elegy, part love poem, and with the springy insistence of an epistolary text, it shows how the agonies, elations, and disordered rhythms of those modes might combine into a strange emulsion. Through a process of glitchy metonymy, the people examined here so intently (a mother, an aunt, a lover called Cope) become equivalent to other objects in the world, like a road or a rock or a shrubbery; the poem also allows for the possibility