and its stubborn delectation of life
Nora Nadjarian
An excerpt of L’Italie L’Ondon was anthologised in Wretched Strangers (Boiler House Press) and performed at FILL
ten poems from ‘A Simple History of Singaporeans in America’
Erosions by John A. Griffin PRE-ORDER Arc Publications and its stubborn delectation ofErosions is John A. Griffins first full length book of poems. Written shortly after he emigrated to the United States, the poems comprise a kind of Bildungsroman exploring themes of boyhood innocence, fantasy, landscapes, nature, death, loss, absence, exile, and a coming into ones powers as one seeks to apprehend the changes wrought by time, epiphany, and departure. Absence, lines, natural forces, spirituality, and extinction are all leitmotifs in the