Behind the State Capitol Blood on the Fog stripped of the usual authorial

stripped of the usual authorial clutter

Then the book flips on a seam and invokes Chaucer as an unlikely guide through a series of dream-blocks

Beautifully translated by the poet Sophie Collins

With an extraordinary structure

Behind the State Capitol Blood on the Fog stripped of the usual authorialJohn Wieners Available in print for the first time in 50 years, Behind the State Capitol: Or Cincinnati Pike has long enjoyed cult status. It is the record of a poet whose life has been shattered by poverty, drug addiction, and mental illness. Wieners creates a complex schizo analysis of language, capitalism, incarceration, and state power, while reflecting on unpopular themes of aging and loneliness in the gay world. It is also a paean for his