Concordance Joan BrossaMei mei Berssenbrugge & Kiki Smith Concordance is a new collaborative work by three acclaimed contemporary artists: poet Mei mei Berssenbrugge and sculptor Kiki Smith, working with book artist Anne McKeown. Inspired by Smith's image of a dandelion, whose floating silks she compares to reading, the poem traces agreements and embeddings of human and animal bodies, ideas, dreams, and emotion in a concordance of parallel and contingent contexts. "Then
the language emerging from censorship and suffocation as experienced under military rule
That’s why the tone is so fried – it’s called trying to maintain
Vloekschrift is het residu van een kaalslag
Brossa reinvigorates this language so as to evince an accessible and archly political poetry that demands our critical and creative participation
as do her poems’ fragmentariness
Love is a many-headed snake in Nisha Ramayya's debut poetry collection
supplies the title of Antonella Anedda’s Historiae
' Of his savvy
Ahmad Almallah seeks a language that captures the afterlives of the mother tongue
and the motion of a dangerous gymnastics move popularized during the Cold War--the "Thomas salto
and Chinese heritage is intrinsically intertwined with Cuba’s history of slavery and indentured labor
with an inquisitive and searching voice stretched over one long
