The Kropotkin poems

"The Kropotkin Poems" is a book or sequence of poems about the Russian anarchist Peter Kropotkin that the Canadian poet Phyllis Webb did not write; they exist only as a $'*( grant proposal and several fragmentary poems (some titled "Poems of Failure") that lie in the long gap between Webb's $'*" Naked Poems and $'6#'s Wilson's Bowl. At just this moment-with the planet careening on its warming arc, spilling storms out of its darkening oceans, with young black men being regularly shot down in American streets and Indigenous land defenders holding the line in the path of numerous pipelines punching their way into the unceded heart of these mountains and rivers without end-it hardly seems the time to escape to an island to visit a solitary and aging former poet.