I Think We're Alone Now by Abigail Parry Sherko Bekas his mind roams

his mind roams

Eriugena's pithy formulation of neo-Platonism—omnia quae sunt lumina sunt—echoes forth in Pound's Pisan Cantos as "all things that are are lights

Their funerals are held without relatives or friends and acquaintances being present

including imminent societal collapse and public unrest

I Think We're Alone Now by Abigail Parry Sherko Bekas his mind roamsI Think We're Alone Now was supposed to be a book about intimacy: what it might look like in solitude, in partnership, and in terms of collective responsibility. Instead, the poems are preoccupied with pop music, etymology, surveillance equipment and cervical examination, church architecture and beetles. Just about anything, in fact, except what intimacy is or looks like. So this is a book that runs on failure, and also a book about failures: of