Tomatoes + Why Doesn't the Far Left Read Literature?Nathalie Quintane Lauded French poet Nathalie Quintane's Tomatoes, written at the height of the infamous Tarnac affair, is a book of integrated critique, a form a literary non fiction that prefers anecdote to theory. In Tomatoes, it turns out that the banalities of municipal politics, book festivals and vegetable gardening are saturated with all the latest advances in state repression. Quintane's irony makes demands, puts something at stake, attempts

about the ongoing European immigration crisis

I love her trembling

Met zijn nieuwe dichtbundel Komijnsplitsers zet Marieke Lucas Rijneveld opnieuw een grote stap in zijn dichterschap

is a generous and brotherly asset

Nisrine Mbarki’s leven speelt zich af in verschillende talen en op verschillende continenten

part concrete poem about a little dead rabbit the poet found on the verge of a road

Wat je moet doen als je over een nijlpaard struikelt

before “our wild rosebush

These are notes towards a contemporary queer experience that emerge from the body

Bernadette Mayer

includes four book-length poems from the middle of her career: The History of Violets (1965)

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