Plainspeak Charles Baudelaire

Plainspeak Charles BaudelaireAstrid Alben Plainspeak is the highly anticipated second collection by Astrid Alben. In these startling poems, readers will experience Albens unorthodox alter ego thinking out louder approach with the same exhilaration as they might engage with art or jazz. Plainspeak reinvents play and logic, is poignant, humorous, absurd and anguished: a book for and of the times we live in.

Referencing lineages of poets

En hoe verhoud je je tot de wereld in dergelijke omstandigheden

The Book of a Thousand Eyes was begun as an homage to Scheherazade

In Don’t Let Them See Me Like This

and only time – embodied here in Lisa Robertson’s forceful cadences – can tell

Written in the years after 9/11

Ishmael Reed

Ester Naomi Perquin

Nietzsche streefde - minstens vanaf zijn jaren als student in de filologie - naar iets dat voorbij de discursieve taal ligt

these fictive-factive miniatures deploy original writing and extant quotation in a mode of pure invention

Schaffer ontving de P

en wel van de heldere