Exilium Rode komeet Want: poëzie is onmisbaar

Want: poëzie is onmisbaar

Addressing a beloved in whose name it is also inscribed

Ze lezen als bekentenissen

the hips' silvered percussion

maar herkenbare wereld op waarin de jonge scholier weliswaar in bedreigende situaties verzeilt

Exilium Rode komeet Want: poëzie is onmisbaarMara Negroni, translated by Michelle Gil Montero As Juan Gelman once wrote, exile has no form but leaves a trace. In Exilium, Argentine poet Mara Negroni sketches precisely such a trace, in a poetic form that approaches opposite extremes of material immediacy and evanescence. On an imaginative terrain that sweeps the Greco Roman, the long night of Argentinas last dictatorship, and the crisis of displaced migrants today, Negroni locates the exile