the poems presented here seek to revisit and challenge foundational narratives
Real-life speech is pinned to the page
Wit bot op het strandravenbeksleutelIk pak het opvoel het spannenvan vleugelsHier: waar je bent
includes four book-length poems from the middle of her career: The History of Violets (1965)
Bij leven publiceerde deze kantoorklerk uit Lissabon slechts enkele werken
Yes, I Am A Destroyer Shakespeare the poems presented here seekMira Mattar 'I travel far across the city, cut it knowingly, concealing behind me the entrances to tunnels, altering the signage. I traverse the grimiest bowels, skirt the farthest wettest edges like a silverfish active only in the hallucinatory hours, to avoid becoming known, to avoid any collusion between my body and theirs, its.' Under the neon sky of a sick city, which might be London, a nameless governess oscillates between lucidity and