Late Human Boat

Late Human BoatJean Day Late Human is a collection of tragi comic poems on lateness, belatedness, Weltschmerz, and borrowing (with a nod to Ernest Mandels 1975 tome on the twilight of capitalism). The human of the title is multiple, personal, and drenched in the tears of the 21st century. Cracked childrens rhymes lead onto an ethnography that takes Helen Mirrens first film appearance as seriously as Moby Dick. At the volumes center, three laments honor the realism

symbiosis is established

” or “verse narratives”––combines the confessional and the critical in a voice all her own

Barbie Chang is an energetic social commentary whose eponymous heroine is a perpetual outsider

Social Poetics documents the imaginative militancy and emergent solidarities of a new

en ideaal om jonge lezers enthousiast te maken voor het spelen met rijm en klank en er dronken van taal van te worden

Shake well before using

with a relevance rendered immediate through Syersak’s skillful translation

gedichten van niet meer dan twee regels

rusteloze klaagzang vol spitsvondigheid en schrijnende beelden

Jack Jung and Joyelle McSweeney)

Dissenting voices continually talk over one another throughout Hopelessness

wezenlijk (maar verre van vreugdeloos) feministische en onverschrokken existentialistische bundel vraagt een vrouw zich af wat ‘thuis’ is