The Book of a Thousand Eyes POETRY here are love poems about

here are love poems about how queer intimacies invent political and poetic forms

time and place

Harm is embedded in English

and then a new chain begins

New York Times Book Review

The Book of a Thousand Eyes POETRY here are love poems aboutLyn Hejinian Written over the course of two decades, The Book of a Thousand Eyes was begun as an homage to Scheherazade, the heroine of The Arabian Nights who, through her nightly tale telling, saved her culture and her own life by teaching a powerful and murderous ruler to abandon cruelty in favor of wisdom and benevolence. Hejinians book is a compendium of 'night works'lullabies, bedtime stories, insomniac lyrics, nonsensical mumblings, fairy tales,