We're stoked for this awesome review of Lyn Hejinian's The Following in Jacket 2. Thank you so much, BK Fischer! / ~ ~ " The seventy-seven numbered poems in the volume gather non sequiturs — observations, utterances, images, and examples that convey no logical relationship or narrative from one to the next — in sets of fourteen, a constraint that inevitably invokes what is perhaps the most closed and logical poetic form of all: the sonnet. To call these poems sonnets, Hejinian writes cannily in the book’s preface, “wouldn’t be inaccurate — or it would be entirely so” (9). “Sonnets are the summit of logicality,” she continues, and unlike “the sonnet proper,” these poems “are intended to be illogical (9). " / http://jacket2.org/reviews/non-sequitur-song-experience https://www.omnidawn.com/product/the-unfollowing/ #omnidawn #poetry #review #lynhejinian #languagepoetry