The Naif Soms droom ik dat

The Naif Soms droom ik datValerie Hsuing The Naif lives in a practiced state of naivetya language fasted, resource starved loopand it lives as a test: of what awareness, what becoming, what imagination is possible under the scarcest of conditions, conditions that can make it impossible to deceive or beguile (others or oneself). It is a book as glass house reversed, where the person walking by can see all the way in, but the person inside cant see halfway outand yet the person

Value here is chosen conviviality

the ones marked with an asterisk in the handbooks

and from configurations of gender and power

"Shiv Kotecha does for the word fucking what Catullus did for the word kissing

Want Otten is niet slechts een begenadigd dichter

maar wel spannend

It establishes a significant new canon

It tracks my turn from verse to prose poems

acceptatie en het leven

and Persian

Hoe moet ik leven

the poems of the prize-winning debut Dancing in Odessa by Ilya Kaminsky