The Grid by Eli Payne Mandel In Search of Dustie-Fute / this terrible love’

/ this terrible love’

just as into and out of the handbook of history

' Liz Berry'Declan Ryan reveals himself a master of both the telling detail and of narrative suspense

pregnant vegetables strain to burst

The Grid by Eli Payne Mandel In Search of Dustie-Fute / this terrible love’The Grid is about the end of worlds, ancient and modern. In three sequences of poems interspersed with Mandel's own translations from classical texts, figures of obsession and loneliness try to decrypt what Maurice Blanchot called 'the writing of the disaster'. Like a detective novel, the title sequence pieces together archival fragments into a lyric essay about Alice Kober, the half forgotten scholar behind the decipherment of the ancient writing