The Marriage of Daughters to the World and Each Other

Veer Books, London 2019

Weber, Naomi
The Marriage of Daughters to the World and Each Other
Veer Books, London 2019
Reihe: Burner Veer 026
Größe: 8°
Seitenzahl: 43 S.
Einband: OBrosch.
Vorl. Spr. Orig.: Englisch
Monographie
Gedichte/Prosagedichte
Buch
'This book is many shapes. A walking along a Moebius strip mapping the continuity between inner and outer, grammatical markers lost of where one becomes the other yet also considering each in its fullness as imaginary borderlands. A line pushing (forward?) towards the poem’s concluding question, with another line spiraling open each necessary node of meaning along the way. And what shape is it to want to know something, to watch something, without reaching for what it’s called, wanting to find ways to know the world differently? What shape is it to want to say something about ‘daughters’, and ‘girlhood’, while watching those words recede? The poem has the courage to try to say what those words have meant, inside and outside. The most invisible shape of this poem shows the march of childhood, the ingesting of symbolic human forms like time and language through repetitions marking the intestines of each little ‘talking animal’. The knowledge underneath these markings as vital, and as vitally linked to poetry: how we know how to make the shapes that receive the inscriptions. There are tugs back into being child, being daughter, and other, deeper tugs down into pre-inscribed knowledge inside the body. The poem’s concern for ‘all we could be’ swims inside all these shapes, seeking a yield as yet untold.' (Helen Dimos)

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