stewarding April Selected by the Modern Library

Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best nonfiction books of all time A book about romantic love

voor iedereen die de liefde wil vieren en mateloos wil verlagen'

‘EECCHHOOEESS’ provides an entryway into the work of a poet whose scant writings have only recently achieved wider recognition

constructing a shimmering haunting of tenderness

I want all their ‘tubular crescendos’

stewarding April Selected by the Modern LibrarySean Roy Parker stewarding maps the joyful and embodied ways we can resist oppressive structures that control our food, housing, and socialisation. We begin in an abandoned school, previously the union headquarters for a coal board, which became a legal guardianship, now condemned. We witness acts of communing between human inhabitants, composting worms, microbes in fermentation, and learn working class histories along the way. Here, complex networks