As Though the Wound Had Heard Ideas Have No Smell Daarom roept ze de herinnering

Daarom roept ze de herinnering op aan pioniers als Nina Simone

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for the energy of her ascent in Peru

lover and interlocutor

Anna Barham

As Though the Wound Had Heard Ideas Have No Smell Daarom roept ze de herinneringMara Pastor 'Words rarely fail us. Rather, its often the other way around. A poem like Mara Pastors Man reminds me of how much we undercut and burden them with the task of unidirectional sense making. It lodges in my mindparasitic, tapeworm likefor its odd humor, unsettling ambiguity, and refusal to budge. The Busts of Mart is a comedic take on polyvocality. Mara Jos Gimnezs translations capture the quirks of Pastors playful sensibility, and what