Arcana The Russian Version The story then follows the

The story then follows the private lives of townspeople encircled by public violence: a newly married couple

‘De crux is liefde en wij zijn de scherven daarvan

to the world’s astonishment

Volgens Distel is er maar één oplossing voor deze chaos: ze moet weer een tienermeisje worden

Introduction and notes by Derek Gromadzki

Arcana The Russian Version The story then follows theStephen Jonas Beginning in the 1950s until his untimely death at age 49, Stephen Jonas (1921 1970) was an influential if underground figure of the New American Poetry. A gay African American poet of self obscured origins, heavily influenced by Ezra Pound and Charles Olson, the Boston based Jonas was a pioneer of the serial poem and an erudite mentor to such acknowledged masters as Jack Spicer and John Wieners, even as he lived a shadowy existence