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Hard DrivePaul Stephenson When his partner suddenly died, life changed utterly for Paul Stephenson. Hard Drive is the outcome of his revisiting a world he thought he knew, but which had been upended. In poems that are affectionate, self examining, sometimes funny and often surprised by grief in the oddest corners, the poet takes us through rooms, routines, and rituals of bereavement, the memory of love, a shared life and separation. A noted formalist, with a

static object of attention

'perhaps the greatest English-language poem of this century' (The New York Times)

When in 1968 his first Collected Poems appeared the critics noted at once his popularity and his refusal to compromise with the negative tones that dominated the poetic palette of contemporary Japan

and what can be made to appear

Con el tigre entre las cosas (2002)

Vincent van Gogh

Mattar’s densely populated poems lyrically dart between entangled histories and contested presents

and the surveillance state

Presented with French text in parallel and a preface by its translator

along with tender sensuality and ubiquitous love

and buried many times over by history

German expressionist painting

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