Modern Nature mother-laughs to the poet's friends and

to the poet's friends and lovers in gay bars and bedrooms—form a cast of characters capable of addressing desire

are used to illustrate these six things

San Francisco: The Auerhahn Society

published at The Poetry Project in an edition of 400 copies

will help the phalange-phobic decipher the unspoken language of gesturesa language not found in any dictionary

Modern Nature mother-laughs to the poet's friends andUniversity Of Minnesota Press, 2009. Softcover, 320pp., 5. 5 x 8. 5 inches New Epiphanies infuse Modern Nature, Derek Jarmans diaries from 1989 to 1990, with their ebullient evocations of gardening. For Jarman, planting flowers at his wind and sea blasted cottage and then reciting their names (endlessly, passionately) becomes sex, becomes the fullness hes on his way to leaving as he grows sicker from AIDS. Village Voice Literary Supplement