Suede Mantis / Soft Rage Ultramarine

Suede Mantis / Soft Rage UltramarineJennifer Soong Swaying between command and curiosity, acquiescence and destruction, distance and proximity, Jennifer Soongs Suede Mantis Soft Rage proffers tenderness that teeters on the precipice of loss. Premised on this peril is not a paralyzing grief but a generative poiesis of cruel desperation, in which poetry pronounces itself in contrasts and conditionals, had beens and renunciations. Like a tongue that tans flesh, like passion thats made

in het fietsenhok op school

tender—ah

including both new poems and beloved favourites

Spicer's voice is more compelling

Ester Naomi Perquin en Eva Gerlach

rendering it in line and shape

observing the detritus of his home city

Ze liet zich inspireren door de sfeer van de tekst en de specifieke klankkleur van Bouazza

Lapsa staat bekend om zijn handgemaakte ontwerpen en voor dit boek maakte hij een reeks inventieve

strange sonnets

part feminist ars poetica

slaughtered cows