Subsisters Louise Glück

Subsisters Louise GlückUljana Wolf, translated by Sophie Seita "This bi floral or even tri floral book of poems is for falselandy neighbouring nearspeakers who prefer to hold ear to phoneme to wit. Arranged according to the pleasures of a collaborative conversation between co translating poets, sinuous between the structured palate and the muscular tongue, Subsisters coheres by means of a joyous principle of augmentation. Wolf and Seita have rendered authority moot; Value

accompanied by reproductions of documents and ephemera

’” Her remarkable essay “Bird Rider” explains: “I came to write Phantom Pain Wings after Daddy passed away

Hans en Monique Hagen

” he peers into the ruins—left by the winds of colonialism

] This is what “Sourdough Mutation” feels like to read: like someone has extracted the hypnagogic voices from your supine head and played them back to you

liefde vasttimmeren in een nieuw huis

die vrouwenlevens

kus me met je kussen de kussen van je mond je adem uitgegoten

and other impossible questions

Wie of wat heb je nodig om een compleet mens te zijn

Given the nativism of our current climate

Laat je inspireren en dompel je onder in een wereld van taal vol humor