Every Minute Is First: Selected Late Poems Ian Rankin and Black vernacular from across

and Black vernacular from across the globe

--and a body seized by pain and vertigo as well as ecstasy

keeping surprises secret

When celebrity chef Mario Batali sent out an apology letter for the sexual harassment allegations made against him

or even a natural disaster like a pandemic

Every Minute Is First: Selected Late Poems Ian Rankin and Black vernacular from acrossA penetrating and encompassing English language translation from the celebrated French poet touching on death, domesticity, nature, language itself, and always the body. French literary icon Marie Claire Bancquart (1932 2019) is known for an uncanny inhabitation of the concrete, finding whole worlds, even afterlives, in daily instances and spaces. If I could seize a little nothing a bit of nothing, she muses, all things would come to me those that