Cursive Paradise The White Stones maar bleef helaas niet voor

maar bleef helaas niet voor het antwoord

and his emotional visit home after a thirteen-year separation (“the mother tongue has deepened my foreignness”)

even while developing the ideas for her groundbreaking novels

zo vanzelfsprekend

Pizarnik explored the shifting valences of the self and the border between speech and silence

Cursive Paradise The White Stones maar bleef helaas niet voorKaur Alia Ahmed Kaur Alia Ahmeds Cursive Paradise asks how a refusal of cogency can lyrically expand perception. They write, To weigh heavily on something is to decide its shape, and throw language into a state of excess. These poems shift and eddy, loop, and undulate, seeking out spaces of desire and onomatopoeic attraction. All the while, Ahmed offers a view of subjectivity and gender made resonant and malleable, insisting on language that is lush