The Unfollowing Relief No book can hope to

No book can hope to reform all the systematic constraints on English usage

Whether alone or in relationship

" which accrues a subtle lyrical connotation throughout its various forms and meanings--to bestow

but they too cannot escape ruin

The Unfollowing Relief No book can hope toLyn Hejinian The Unfollowing is a sequence of elegies, mourning public as well as personal loss. The grief is not coherent. Though the poems are each fourteen lines long, they are not sonnets but anti sonnets. They are composed entirely of non sequiturs, with the intention of demonstrating, if not achieving, a refusal to follow aesthetic proprieties, and a rejection of the logic of mortality and of capitalism. As the author sees it, outrage, hilarity,