The Penguin Book of the Prose Poem Feast of the Ass Caustic is Khaïr-Eddine’s wildly irreverent

Caustic is Khaïr-Eddine’s wildly irreverent and vitriolic condemnation of colonization and political repression—composed in a vertiginous

these poems emerged from a (soma)tic poetry ritual in which the author wrote with animals who have found ways to thrive in the Anthropocene

the poet foresees his downfall and metamorphosis

and translates from Japanese

The Penguin Book of the Prose Poem Feast of the Ass Caustic is Khaïr-Eddine’s wildly irreverentJeremy Noel Tod, editor The last decades have seen an explosion of the prose poem. More and more writers are turning to this peculiarly rich and flexible form; it defines Claudia Rankine's Citizen, one of the most talked about books of recent years, and many others, such as Sarah Howe's Loop of Jade and Vahni Capildeo's Measures of Expatriation, make extensive use of it. Yet this fertile mode which in its time has drawn the likes of Charles