Read Me Dionne Brand alleen omdat ik een kind

alleen omdat ik een kind was op het eiland

where spirits and people ride endlessly on subways

One might term it a realm of the ghostly sublime

there is yet something about Dobran’s clear-eyed view out onto the actual existing world that bestows a kind of proleptic clarity on the Skinner box of the present: the poetic defamiliarization at play is not the techno-stunned alienation of modernism but something older and more stoic

the daily forms of discourse

Read Me Dionne Brand alleen omdat ik een kindHolly Melgard Read Me gathers the tools necessary to make sense of contemporary problems so ubiquitous they seem too big to name. Spanning a multiplicity of genres, media, and tonal registers, this book surveys Holly Melgards formally experimental poetic works produced between 2008 and 2023, including sound poems, essays on poetics, and books that exploit print on demand to, for example, counterfeit money. In often wildly comic turns of thought,