Active Reception Valley of the Many-Colored Grasses Island mountain glacier is Vegter’s

Island mountain glacier is Vegter’s first full collection in English

darkly funny book tells a single story in an immediate

and some of these Butoh-fu notations remain

lamentatory and comic - which have defined and developed the form at each stage

Hilst's odes enact a baroque danse macabre

Active Reception Valley of the Many-Colored Grasses Island mountain glacier is Vegter’sNoah Ross A vibrant work of lyric, conceptual, and confessional poetic modes pitched to enact a queer politics of liberation. Active Reception opens to the world around us through its myriad life formsas a book of bottoming, queer kin, and a history of letters that thinks through a mode of writing from the bottom.