Who is Mary Sue? Nothing More to Lose

Who is Mary Sue? Nothing More to LoseSophie Collins In the language of fan fiction, a 'Mary Sue' is an idealised and implausibly flawless character: a female archetype that can infuriate audiences for its perceived narcissism. Such is the setting for this brilliant and important debut by Sophie Collins. In a series of verse and prose collages, Who Is Mary Sue? exposes the presumptive politics behind writing and readership: the idea that men invent while women reflect; that a man writes

where spirits and people ride endlessly on subways

NRC Handelsblad prees in 1987 de 'treffende beelden

/ van lange stilte slijpend staal’

voices speak who Melgard herself is not - or not yet - but who the poet operates in relation to becoming (potential parent

The Descent Of Alette is a rich odyssey of transformation in the tradition of The Inferno

translation Astrid Alben

1979 – a series edited by Bernadette Mayer and Lewis Warsh – this reprinted edition by London's Distance No Object (run by Luke Roberts and Amy Tobin) comes in large format and is perfect bound

the Sogdian Sutras – in a lyricism that insists on analysis and revolt

indifferent to its present

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beseft dat Les Fleurs du mal ten onrechte grotere bekendheid geniet

Het Land van Kokanje