Song of the Yellow Asters Alli Warden

Song of the Yellow Asters Alli WardenSelma Meerbaum Eisinger The life of Selma Meerbaum Eisinger, a cousin of Paul Celan, was cut short in a Nazi labor camp, but her poems survived to bear witness with lyric tenderness, resilience, and enduring humanity. Meerbaum Eisinger collected her poemsalongside translations from French, Yiddish, and Romanianwritten between the ages of 15 and 17, in a meticulously crafted handbound volume titled Bltenlese. Drawing on a rich folkloric and literary

algorithmically shuffled into pleasing patterns of sound and shape

voices speak who Melgard herself is not - or not yet - but who the poet operates in relation to becoming (potential parent

Antonia Pozzi werd geboren in Milaan in 1912

conversed with the artist about them

she creates a series of visual and sonic poem-glyphs that score archaeologies of personal and cultural memory

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while limited by the box-like confines of the page

affliction and resilience

the runoff

the methods of lighting a cigarette

lichamen en taal

Wat gebeurt er als een dichter op de troon wordt geheven en poëzie de maat van alle dingen wordt