Toxicon and Arachne De spronglaag

Toxicon and Arachne De spronglaagJoyelle McSweeney In Toxicon and Arachne, McSweeney allows the lyric to course through her like a toxin, producing a quiver of lyrics like poisoned arrows. Toxicon was written in anticipation of the birth of McSweeneys daughter, Arachne. But when Arachne was born sick, lived briefly, and then died, McSweeney unexpectedly endured a second inundation of lyricism, which would become the poems in Arachne, this time spun with grief. Toxicon and Arachne is

November ritselt waar de vogel zoekt

Paperback | 206 pages | Nightboat Books | 10 November 2020 | 6 x 9 in

time opens: Ecstatic

This masterwork displays Dionne Brand’s ongoing body of thought—trenchant

Troubling the Line: Trans and Genderqueer Poetry and Poetics

There seems to be a loose narrative

But at the same time he cautions

incomplete and yet excessive communication transpires

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but will add a new layer as a far more personal and lyrical book than anything she has yet published

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