The Grid What's Good ’ Better cast some of

’ Better cast some of those ‘stunned white stones’

whose verse ranged from short lyrics to longer poems and extended sequences

were written by Ezra Pound in Italian

In Diepe eb verstrijkt de tijd als in een droom

you’ll always be seen as an alien

The Grid What's Good ’ Better cast some ofEli Payne Mandel 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