Eighty Two by Talia Randall William Letford ‘ The painter is frustrated

‘ The painter is frustrated to be always / painting onto something

—Valzhyna Mort

Things we have seen before

and to beauty

Eighty Two by Talia Randall William Letford ‘ The painter is frustratedeighty two is a collection length sequence of poetry spanning the life of a woman from 1984 to 2065. Each poem in the sequence offers a snapshot of one year. eighty two explores themes of environmental disaster, the body, alienation, and precarity. Talia Randalls poems present a slanted view of world events both real and imagined through the prism of strange, tender and intimate fragments of one womans life. Above all, eighty two is an attempt to re