Toxicon and Arachne Babeth Fonchie Fotchind and writer Eileen Myles

and writer Eileen Myles

The book emerges from Nersessian’s lifelong attachment to Keats’s poetry

and other workers of the world

These poems bear the record of a state of heightened perception

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Toxicon and Arachne Babeth Fonchie Fotchind and writer Eileen MylesJoyelle McSweeney In Toxicon and Arachne, McSweeney allows the lyric to course through her like a toxin, producing a quiver of lyrics like poisoned arrows. Toxicon was written in anticipation of the birth of McSweeneys daughter, Arachne. But when Arachne was born sick, lived briefly, and then died, McSweeney unexpectedly endured a second inundation of lyricism, which would become the poems in Arachne, this time spun with grief. Toxicon and Arachne is