Boris Vian was a French polymath: writer, poet, musician, singer, translator, critic, actor, inventor and engineer. He is best remembered today for his novels. Those published under the pseudonym Vernon Sullivan were bizarre parodies of criminal fiction, highly controversial at the time of their rele

Atmospheric, Bubblicious, Distorted, Ecstatic, Experimental, Funny, Hypnotic, Layered, Loose, Perceptual, Playful, Psychological, Sophisticated, Surreal, Wise assy, Witty

Anne Carson is a Canadian poet, essayist, translator, and a professor of Classics and comparative literature at the University of Michigan. Carson lived in Montreal for several years and taught at McGill University. She is reticent about her private life; the biography published in current editions

Baroque, Erotic, Feminist, Intimate, Open-ended, Playful, Polychromatic, Sophisticated, Spiritual, Sublime, Witty

Bolano’s works are a wash of multiplicities. Art and literature are woven into crime and atrocity; literary culture is a whore to its own vainity; vanity is a strung out pimp in the middle of a thunderstorm; the story of person a: poet, custodian, radical transvestite briefly intersects with and is

Angry, Beautiful , Catastrophe, Chance, Cool, Dark, Death, Enigmatic, Epic, Erotic, Expansive, Experimental, Funny, Gritty, Grotesque, Hypnotic, Loose, Overflowing, Parody, Pathos, Political, Rebel, Saturated, Social revolution, Sophisticated, Spectral, Sublime, Tragic, Violent, Visceral

A dense reticulum of ideas, which unravels into a swarm of images and a cacophony of sounds but nevertheless maintains a fluid coherence: such is the world of Wallace Stevens, Modernist poet par excellence, a man of stoic temperament and intimidating intelligence. With a daunting arsenal of unfamilia

Composed, Contemplative, Dense, Modernist poetry, Quirky, Smart, Sophisticated