Self-Portrait in the Zone of Silence Emily Wilson

Self-Portrait in the Zone of Silence Emily WilsonHomero Aridjis Self Portrait in the Zone of Silence, by the renowned Mexican writer Homero Aridjis, is a brilliant collection of poems written in and for the new century. Aridjis seeks spiritual transformation through encounters with mythical animals, family ghosts, migrant workers, Mexico's oppressed, female saints, other writers (such as Jorge Luis Borges and Philip Lamantia), and naked angels in the metro. We find tributes to Goya and Heraclitus,

and aphorisms

create an unusually dynamic reading experience as she finds new ways 'to sing

on the level of the sentence in translation as much as the embodied erotogenic zones of the body

Haar regels houden elkaar als het ware voor de gek

transformational

whether it’s ancient or contemporary

witch and especially

documentation of artworks including assemblages and paintings

” Hejinian delivers it up “in a current of bomb sense” at once precipitous and precise

numbered LXXII and LXXIII

and this will mark their afterlife

Ze vraagt in de vorm van een mis aandacht voor onze relatie met de aarde en nodigt uit tot een nieuw perspectief