Emblem Denise Riley As the poet herself notes:

As the poet herself notes: “My name is Bernadette Mayer

with risographed wrappers printed by Earthbound Press

Ze schrijft bovendien in het Galicisch

by no means autobiographical

"Midwinter Day

Emblem Denise Riley As the poet herself notes:Lucy Mercer In ghostly conversation with the sixteenth century emblematist Andrea Alciato a witness to a lonely time the poems of this debut collection are carried forward by a non linear dream logic of metaphor and similitude, speaking pictures who remain silent and a focus on an adjacent imaginal world. As well as reusing images from Alciatos emblem book, the poems fixate on alternating relations between text and image that blur into relations