The Close Chaplet Sleeping with the Dictionary "To have the idea of

"To have the idea of the secret chord is to have the secret chord

and wracked by all kinds of hunger

Nominated for the 2021 Nordic Council Literature Prize

is the body

Op het hoogtepunt van hun erotische relatie laat Herakles Geryon vallen en stort deze in het diepste leed

The Close Chaplet Sleeping with the Dictionary "To have the idea ofLaura Riding The Close Chaplet is Laura Ridings first book, long out of print, originally published in 1926. Riding deliberately ceased writing poems after 1940, when she came to see poetry as irrevocably flawed as a means of expression. These poems demonstrate Ridings early desire to depart from the close and well tilled ground of traditional lyric poetry. In his introduction, Mark Jacobs writes that Riding identifies herself with the pre moment, the