A Catalogue of Risk The Selkie

A Catalogue of Risk The SelkieAlisha Mascarenhas Alisha Mascarenhass A Catalogue of Risk is a volte face of the neoliberal market economys construction of isolated, individual safety. In her debut book of poems, Mascarenhas lingers in the question of risk as it arises in daily life and intimacy. Through a close study and partial translation of philosopher psychoanalyst Anne Dufourmantelles loge du risque (2011), her poems posit risk as a fissure, through which we might imagine yet

With pronominal shifts

but to hold fragments together in order to offer possibilities for connection and extension

Active in New York’s downtown art

the hag rises

'Black Maria'

If Edouard Glissant says that we write in the presence of all the world's languages

In deze bundel poëzie en essays verkent Merel van Slobbe intimiteit en verlangen in dit tijdperk van digitalisering

or in Auden’s words

trigger its unused muscles

intensely honest and hopeful

nopen tot kosmisch denken

as well as to carry traces of dislocated and disappearing worlds