riverrun Quark’s One-Book Poetry Experiment

Field notes

The book’s architecture is unusually explicit: fifty opus-numbered divisions combine mostly unrhymed decasyllabics with prose forms, including a detective pastiche and four fragments of an unfinished novel. Other named components range from a terza rima sequence to a double dactyl about the Library of Alexandria. The site also treats the jacket as part of the argument, describing technical linework on the front and a cosmic anatomical image on the reverse.