Of Course Alli Warden

Of Course Alli WardenCatherine Wagner Of Course is about burnout, and loneliness in a crowd: The lonely is a white middle aged cis het woman academic and the crowd is crickets. Power makes sex hurt. Harm is embedded in English. Cricket sound is absent from concrete. The author burns out alongside world burnout, happening unevenly and much harder hotter for many than for the authorfires and rising waters, fascism, the race track, slowburn genocide, species death.

showing how those limits can be the basis for new modes of expression

Krog dicht recht het hart in

gevaarlijk en vol van een duistere en vreugdevolle overvloed

it holds history accountable

and translation—separately and in various combinations

Critical Quarterly

to ‘find their voice’

Brand’s ongoing labors of witness and imagination speak directly to where and how we live and reach beyond those worlds

maar bleef helaas niet voor het antwoord

playful style that levels the playing field of what kinds of images carry poetic weight

on being the other woman

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