The Grid by Eli Payne Mandel Michael Mackmin In Every Thing Awake the

In Every Thing Awake the known gives birth to the unknown and brings us closer not only to lucid dreams

Robert Macfarlane writes

"is the simple idea so hard to achieve

The Lost Words stands against the disappearance of wild childhood

The Grid by Eli Payne Mandel Michael Mackmin In Every Thing Awake theThe 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