Wayne Koestenbaum

The writer pens a list of everything he’s said goodbye to

‘His work resembles a world from which the humans have departed; all that remains are the mute plastic things, marked with purposeless love’

‘I spend more time being seduced by the void … as a way of energizing my language’: poet Wayne Koestenbaum speaks about his new book

Wayne Koestenbaum's new book Humiliation confirms that language hurts