How to burn a woman by Claire Askew Philip Gross thanks to her poetry the

thanks to her poetry the world we see

death and resurrection of language itself

slow lives have always demanded our careful consideration (indeed Virginia Woolf’s Orlando took 300 years over their own quercian epic)

at the psychiatric clinic

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