Goatsong Ariana Reines Wat je zoekt

Wat je zoekt

In three sequences of poems interspersed with Mandel's own translations from classical texts

Like Jack Spicer’s After Lorca

In deze tweede bundel ontwikkelt Koleka Putuma de thema’s uit haar eerste werk Collectief geheugenverlies verder

an apologia--written as a relay between two fictional characters--for friendship and desire

Goatsong Ariana Reines Wat je zoektPhoebe Giannisi (trans. Brian Sneeden) The ancient Greek word for tragedy () is a compound of goat () and song (). In Phoebe Giannisis Goatsong, the seam that connects human and animal, myths and history, is the body. In Giannisis language, life obeys myth. A man places a screaming cicada in his mouth, reminding us of a scene from Platos Phaedrus, where Socrates claims cicadas to have been humans who became entranced by the invention of singing, and