It looks as if Darwin is constructed from a huge range of sources, tiny fragments, with only intuitive and discrete intervention: no autobiography, and no identity politics. It may be the first pure Constructivist poem composed on the pleasure principle. As Andrew Crozier wrote of Lopez’s False Memory: ‘it delights in being read’. Darwin returns to and builds on the later work of Stein and Joyce, but also Ian Hamilton Finlay and contemporary science; it could not have been written before 2007. Darwin is section three of a much larger work-in-progress entitled ‘Only More So’ that has begun to appear in online and print magazines throughout the world.

44 Pages
Perfect Bound
ISBN:978-0-9561844-0-5
£8.50

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