Hard Drive Hoe de eerste vonken zichtbaar waren strains of jazz standards bleed

strains of jazz standards bleed into anti-national anthems

begin je toch te twijfelen

the language of crisis gapes and sings

facsimiles of original manuscripts

In three uncanny acts

Hard Drive Hoe de eerste vonken zichtbaar waren strains of jazz standards bleedPaul Stephenson When his partner suddenly died, life changed utterly for Paul Stephenson. Hard Drive is the outcome of his revisiting a world he thought he knew, but which had been upended. In poems that are affectionate, self examining, sometimes funny and often surprised by grief in the oddest corners, the poet takes us through rooms, routines, and rituals of bereavement, the memory of love, a shared life and separation. A noted formalist, with a