The Unfollowing You Can Be the Last Leaf written in an unknown tongue

written in an unknown tongue

part feminist ars poetica

to Sylvia Plath

Abstractive Treatise on Obeuse by Paul Colinet

and in our attempts to live up to the demands of others

The Unfollowing You Can Be the Last Leaf written in an unknown tongueLyn Hejinian The Unfollowing is a sequence of elegies, mourning public as well as personal loss. The grief is not coherent. Though the poems are each fourteen lines long, they are not sonnets but anti sonnets. They are composed entirely of non sequiturs, with the intention of demonstrating, if not achieving, a refusal to follow aesthetic proprieties, and a rejection of the logic of mortality and of capitalism. As the author sees it, outrage, hilarity,