Dog Star Notations Selected Poems 1999 - 2016

In 1995 Håkan Sandell published Om Retrogardismen (On Retrogardism), a book which argued that poetry had become too insular and contemptuous of its own medium to communicate meaningfully with the public. The remedy Sandell proposed was a return to techniques and genres that modernism had rejected or neglected. But anyone who dubs himself a Retrogardist is being as much playful as provocative. Dog Star Notations is a collection of communications addressed to both the head and heart of the reader.

Bill Coyle's poems and translations have appeared in journals including the Hudson Review, PN Review and Poetry. His first book of poetry, The God of This World to His Prophet, won the New Criterion Poetry Prize in 2006. Håkan Sandell has published eighteen collections or pamphlets of poetry, most recently Ode till Demiurgen (Ode to the Demiurge, 2013). He is also a translator and critic, and a cofounder of the artistic movement known as Retrogardism.