Either, Orpheus

Dan Disney''s highly original either, Orpheus remakes the villanelle. The ''sound-swarms'' in this contemporary ''orphic'' work riff laterally on received poetic and philosophical ideas and incorporate fascinating shreds of thinking and saying. Rainer Maria Rilke and Søren Kierkegaard are the presiding spirits in the volume, and Disney is also in discussion about divergent ways of seeing and under...