Emblem Krop 1797–1869) Urdu Divan

1797–1869) Urdu Divan

Een ding dat bestaat uit beton

defined as it is by verbal shuffling of the “rack/lack/cack” variety (though far more myriad and pleasurable)

Achter gesloten deuren kleit hij een vaas

Vertaald en van nawoord voorzien door Jan Mysjkin

Emblem Krop 1797–1869) Urdu DivanLucy Mercer In ghostly conversation with the sixteenth century emblematist Andrea Alciato a witness to a lonely time the poems of this debut collection are carried forward by a non linear dream logic of metaphor and similitude, speaking pictures who remain silent and a focus on an adjacent imaginal world. As well as reusing images from Alciatos emblem book, the poems fixate on alternating relations between text and image that blur into relations