Suede Mantis / Soft Rage Common Life A collection by renowned poet

A collection by renowned poet and scholar Erica Hunt

queer voice grappling with the intricacies of (un)belonging and identity

The results are thrilling new modes of thinking that may change the ways we read and write

een minderheidstaal met een rijke literaire traditie die onder druk van het Spaans dreigt te verdwijnen

Het hart van het boek wordt gevormd door de twintig door Marlene Dumas geïllustreerde vertalingen van Hafid Bouazza

Suede Mantis / Soft Rage Common Life A collection by renowned poetJennifer Soong Swaying between command and curiosity, acquiescence and destruction, distance and proximity, Jennifer Soongs Suede Mantis Soft Rage proffers tenderness that teeters on the precipice of loss. Premised on this peril is not a paralyzing grief but a generative poiesis of cruel desperation, in which poetry pronounces itself in contrasts and conditionals, had beens and renunciations. Like a tongue that tans flesh, like passion thats made