AntiBeauty Author:Anthony Barnett Poetry/ Prose. "The problem as I see it is this: either I see too much or I don't see enough. Too much or not enough. I heard you. It's never going to be easy, knowing what to put in and what to leave out. Varifocal. Photochromic" ("Optical"). ANTI-BEAUTY, Anthony Barnett's newest volume of poems and prosepoems, is by turns rich and stark, whole... more » and broken, smooth narration and jolting wordplay, "broken playthings/ thoughts in which I believe and see myself,/ voracious vocative/ decerebrated yearning" ("Vocative Case"). Barnett is the author of nearly twenty volumes of poetry and several translations, and is an authority on the history of improvised music.« less