The Optogram of the Mind Is a Carnation ReinAard

The Optogram of the Mind Is a Carnation ReinAardIsabel Sobral Campos The Optogram of the Mind is a Carnation is a book length poem memoir reflecting on Portuguese colonization of African countries and its place within the imperial and colonial forces that have shaped global history for the past 500 years. Drawing on the writings of Amlcar Cabral and others, as well as interviews with family members about life under Salazars dictatorship, it weaves together scholarly sources, familial narratives,

Sarduy invents new forms to engage questions of identity

Rumi’s gedichten zijn opmerkelijk actueel en overbruggen met gemak de zeven eeuwen die ons van hem scheiden

surrealism and blunt materiality

Expecting him to do these things

bordjes wezen de weg

Many of them are ingeniously funny—flash-fictional riffs on the commodity as talismanic object

into the River Styx to protect all but his famous heel where her hand grips

De vechtsportzaal verandert in een groen psychedelisch landschap

Originally published in 1969 by Lerici Editore in Rome

and soon afterward

onomstootbare conclusies

Early Works collects Alice Notley’s first four out of print poetry collections