wordtomydead nonfiction een bezweringsdans waarin geliefde

een bezweringsdans waarin geliefde

In three poems

spanning the period between 1976 and 1982

these poems are composed from a brief phrase or sentence whose words are exhaustively or almost exhaustively permuted over the course of each poem

wordtomydead nonfiction een bezweringsdans waarin geliefdeSad Powell wordtomydead is a practice in black feminist poethics. using a 1940s mechanical typewriter, sad mucks up orthography to investigate disorienting practices of refusal and wade through the fundamental feltness and unintelligibility of thingness. the concrete poetics deployed on with against the typewriter serve as scores for plenum sociality: your head stretches to the page, eyes squint, tongues stutter as you read the cascading letters