Slips of the Mind: Poetry as Forgetting A Novel with Voices

Slips of the Mind: Poetry as Forgetting A Novel with VoicesJennifer Soong In Slips of the Mind, poet and critic Jennifer Soong turns away from forgettings long standing associations with suppression, privation, and error to argue that the absence or failure of memory has often functioned as a generative creative principle. Exploring forgetting not as the mere rejection of a literary past or a form of negative poetics, Soong puts to the test its very aesthetic meaning. What new structures, forms of desires,

Dubbed "Tuwim in a skirt" by her contemporaries

als ze onderweg zijn naar de offerplaats en de schrik het kind om het hart slaat

Arno van Vlierberghe

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and socio-political insight

with public spaces

] Het gaat zeker niet altijd van een leien dakje

‘opdat alles zou worden onthouden

identity andhistory

Hugo Claus

So finally

Textos por fuera / Outside Texts is a collection of poems that question themselves