Works & DaysBernadette Mayer Part springtime journal (why are there thorns?), Works and Days meditates on the first wasps and chipmunks of the season, times passage, grackle hearts, and dandelions, while also collecting dozens of poems considering the Catholic Church, Sir Thomas Browne, Go Away welcome mats, books, floods (never of dollar money), the invention of words, local politics, friendships, property development, dogs, and Hesiod. Every page delights. As

and collect their leavings: skin

circling and never landing

metrostations en circustenten

Lev Tolstoi en Virginia Woolf verbreedt Carson haar zoektocht naar het verband tussen erotisch verlangen en de aantrekkingskracht van kennis

existing and exiting on their delayed wings of pain

soms is het verstikkend

” writes Dipika Mukherjee

complicating notions of authority and who gets the last word

tells the story that cannot be told yet must be told

“Dit is alleszins een bundel die nazindert

The translator

In de bundel Aan de rand van een lichaam brengt Merel van Slobbe poëzie en filosofie bij elkaar in een zoektocht naar online en offline identiteit