The Lodgers Edward van de Vendel and ideas of utopia—becoming a

and ideas of utopia—becoming a book that continuously surprises and is nearly impossible to categorize

its days and nights of desire and melancholy

Time in these poems expands and contracts

chair of the BTBA panel for poetry wrote: "The Russian Version obliterates the stereotype of what Great Russian Poetry should sound like

James Schuyler

The Lodgers Edward van de Vendel and ideas of utopia—becoming aHolly Pester A burlesque, dark comedy about lodgings, lovers, and mother daughter bonds that falter across time and tenancies. 'What it said to me was that I was here again, I was back, back from the great nowhere of somewhere else, returned, all too officially, to the whereabouts of Moffa.' After a year away, a woman arrives back in her hometown to keep an eye on her wayward mother, Moffa. Living in a precarious sub let, she is always on edge,