Viscera: Eight Voices from Poland Kader Abdolah

Viscera: Eight Voices from Poland Kader AbdolahMark Tardi Viscera: Eight Voices from Poland, edited by Mark Tardi, presents a selection of work by Polish women writers committed to experimenting with form while shaping vigorous political critiques. As Tardi writes in the Introduction, Each of the writers work in this book frustrates the limits of particular poetic concerns and together their voices comprise an archival octet that hums in the breaths hidden fissure, full of counterpoint, semi

the emerald tigers that leap in a throat

en toch herkenbaar als taal van onze wereld

anchored in the classical past but firmly on the side of the living and our problems

‘Mij interesseert alleen “onzin”

soms rijk aan beelden

Van de engerd in het park tot de dokter die ons slecht nieuws brengt

In Toxicon and Arachne

Watts’ poetry charts familial histories

What does it mean to have 'heritage'

the ever-present not-there-ness of the person who was/is loved

Walton’s work exists at the apex of an environmental noir whose ambience reverberates through deep time

letting us in on the best inside jokes