Happily Amiri Baraka Dorothea Lasky’s Memory is a

Dorothea Lasky’s Memory is a cycle of “poet’s essays” stirred by two profound questions

Generally acknowledged as the inventor of free verse

described by its author as “cinema decoupages

as well as from journals and chapbooks long out of print

The poems are presented in reverse chronological order

Happily Amiri Baraka Dorothea Lasky’s Memory is aLyn Hejinian This small book length poem by Hejinian presents a loosely linked series of everyday, abstracted pleasures where time is tactile yet immeasurable; when recognized, though, it is a revelation: Now is a blinding instant one single explosion but somehow some part of it gets accentuated And each time the moment falls the emphasis of the moment falls into time differently No sooner noticed no sooner now that falls from something Now is a noted