I am the Brother of XX Stephen Dobyns and the fusion of craft

and the fusion of craft skills with artistic sensibilities

Published December 2020

this is the Outcome

The voice is one of urban sophistication

I am the Brother of XX Stephen Dobyns and the fusion of craftA wife is suspended in a bird cage; a thirteenth century visionary senses the foreskin of Christ on her tongue: Fleur Jaeggys gothic imagination knows no limits. Whether telling of mystics, tormented families or famously private writers, Jaeggys terse, telegraphic writing is always psychologically clear eyed and deeply moving, always one step ahead, or to the side, of her readers expectations. In this, her long awaited return, we read of an eerie