Making WaterLaura Jaramillo 'Laura Jaramillos Making Water unpacks a lovely liquid landscape shot through with the promise of violence. How can you know anything in a world of permeable boundaries, where even time moves like water, or is it blood? How can you know anything where we are dislocations incidentally cut with experience? Where you become aware of something only as it & you become something else that disappears? In Making Water, Jaramillo shows all this

Ze wantrouwt het gelijkmatige leven daar al langer

the language of crisis gapes and sings

die de jongeling niet kan weerstaan

bedtime stories

the book also includes “poetics statements”—reflections by each poet that provide context for their work covering a range of issues from identification and embodiment to language and activism

in five numbered sections

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

on the margins of a burning forest

the imaginary master of the “heteronym” coterie created by the Portuguese modernist Fernando Pessoa

Ze laat zien hoe de literaire verbeelding van verlangen verband houdt met uiteenlopende verschijnselen als de uitvinding van het Griekse alfabet

een persiflage op ‘Mária Lécina’ van J

compression fantasies