Let it go on: South Poetry, spring/summer 2016

25th November 2021UncategorizedAlejandra Pizarnik, Joan Naviyuk Kane, Marina Fokidis, Mustapha Benfodil, Quinn Latimer, South as a State of MindMinus Plato

Joan Naviyuk Kane In a way, the animal detaches itself from truth. I might lose myself amidst such strange propulsions. In a way, I am fooled into rooting for a cause, one that I clearly hate. There’s a hole here. – Joan Naviyuk Kane, ‘Another Bright Departure’ (Cut Bank Books: Missoula, 2019), p. 2. Alejandra […]

The Empty Days Library Logbook – Minus Plato with Alejandra Pizarnik

18th September 2020UncategorizedAlejandra Pizarnik, Empty Daybook, The Empty Days Library, The Empty Days Library LogbookMinus Plato

On September 26, 1954, the eighteen year-old Alejandra Pizarnik recorded in her diary: I must write or die. I must fill up notebooks or die. Two days later she added, I want to free myself! I want to live!