Love is Colder than the Lake The Loveliest Vowel Empties

Love is Colder than the Lake The Loveliest Vowel EmptiesLiliane Giraudon Love Is Colder than the Lake weaves together stories dreamed and experienced, fragments of autobiographical trauma, and scraps of political and sexual violence to create an alchemical and incantatory texture that is all Giraudons own. In its feminist attention and allusive stylistic registers, Love Is Colder than The Lake claims a unique position among contemporary French literature. The heroes (or anti heroes) in this collection

Is the poem a record of its own crystalline growth or does it capture the process of consciousness itself

Voor wie wel al heeft gevonden maar voor wie nog een maatje nodig heeft

Wanneer hij weer eens op zichzelf was teruggeworpen

toggling instead between a singular speaker who struggles with health issues

” caused severe illnesses and thousands of deaths

and as he approached the moment when he would succumb to the debilitating emotional pain of a Holocaust survivor

and a hunger for communion in which near and far collapse

om een moment later in een tomeloze speelsheid te vervallen

Transverse is magnificent

surprise and transgression as artistic strategies

Anne Carson onderzoekt in Eros

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