The Book of the Peony by Gaspar Orozco, trans. by Mark Weiss Clive James liminal world sits at the

liminal world sits at the centre of Still Life with Feeding Snake

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Beneath everything shines the jewel itself

leaving behind a comical void

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The Book of the Peony by Gaspar Orozco, trans. by Mark Weiss Clive James liminal world sits at theGaspar Orozcos extraordinary Book of the Peony blew me away by a storm of quiet flame and blackness and nothing everythingness. I am writing this from Pont Aven, where I have come to write about colonies and gatherings of artists, before regaining (what an inappropri word,) and suddenly this poetry hits me in the Breton chill withI cant say whata dark blaze when I expected I have no idea what? I had been thinking ah, peony, like pense, like a beloved