LilacsRainer Diana Hamilton In Lilacs, syringa vulgaris gives its name to a form of long poem that promotes sense memory. Here, we have one lilac for each of the senses, and a sixth for love, which synthesizes them all. 'I wanna ____ all my friends at once: how would you complete the lyric Arthur Russell wrote for Go Bang? In Rainer Diana Hamiltons hands, smell or touchor talk to, for Hamilton a near synonym for lovemight be more appropriate than Russells

Severo Sarduy

van oorsprong naar verre toekomst

an act of erasure that reimagines the original text as it strips it away

Part protest against reality

Van mijn slimme routes nog

Een nieuw geluid volgt de spectaculaire geboorte van de moderne poëzie in Nederland van dichtbij en levert een verrassende manier van (literatuur)geschiedschrijving

– Jerome Rothenberg

Like meeting under a disco ball

" to three years of detention in a small seaside village in Calabria

the process of aging

The text is a rich current crossing

the made-up city of Ingmar Bergman’s The Silence