Cursive ParadiseKaur Alia Ahmed Kaur Alia Ahmeds Cursive Paradise asks how a refusal of cogency can lyrically expand perception. They write, To weigh heavily on something is to decide its shape, and throw language into a state of excess. These poems shift and eddy, loop, and undulate, seeking out spaces of desire and onomatopoeic attraction. All the while, Ahmed offers a view of subjectivity and gender made resonant and malleable, insisting on language that is lush

observational mode and crystallizes swiftly into an engrossing lattice of voice and affect

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Nomenclature: New and Collected Poems is classic and living

De teksten van Babs Gons in Alles wat je liefhebt wordt mooi leven en bewegen: gedichten monden uit in columns

ideological pressures

and her astonishing sonnets

An aqueous surface marbled with the lightest possible touch

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Friederike Mayröcker's almost daily entries give us a unique view into the interplay between desire and her motivation for writing

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Voor zijn gehele oeuvre ontving hij de Constantijn Huygens-prijs

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