God Was RightDiana Hamilton God Was Right collects poems that take the form of arguments, essays, and letters. The title poem argues that God was right to make us love cats (and then watch them die); another categorizes the way women like to be kissed; one proposes a sex ed that takes into account persuasion and pleasure; another argues men should write bad poetry; a letter tries to make friendship about love; a five paragraph essay tries to disarm heartbreak via

Omdat zij spreken van het dubbele bereik van leven én dood

Her poems reverberate with sexual candor

Composed in Arabic and translated into English by the poet himself

Laura Henriksen’s lust for life leads her into reverie

biopolitical manipulation

Lawrence Abu Hamdan

” “middle-class nausea

From her deep excavations of documentary materials

In onze familie ben je pas iemand als je in harten snijdt

Ze laat zien hoe de literaire verbeelding van verlangen verband houdt met uiteenlopende verschijnselen als de uitvinding van het Griekse alfabet

The results are like certain mushrooms fruiting

acclaimed poet and classicist Anne Carson presents all of Sappho’s fragments