Nets Rosmarie Waldrop

Nets Rosmarie WaldropJen Bervin "Jen Bervin has reimagined Shakespeare as our true contemporary. Her little poems sing" Paul Auster. In Nets, poet and artist Jen Bervin strips Shakespeare's sonnets "bare to the nets," chiseling away at the familiar lines to reveal surprising new poems, while pointing obliquely at the unavoidably intertextual ground of writing. Using visual compositional strategies as effectively as verbal ones, Bervin allows the discarded text to remain

and theater scenes in the 1960s and early ’70s

taking us from the grime of modern-day Shatila and the opulence of medieval Baghdad to the gardens of Samarkand and the open-air prison of present-day Gaza

and yet emphasizes the archival and documentary as intrinsic to our personal and collective survivals

Middenin de rampspoed

The additional cantos

wildly clever

Wat gebeurt er met een lichaam als het alleen maar naar een beeldscherm staart

the book’s title poem issues from a practice of daily collage

to create a moving portrait of contemporary anxieties around language and the need to communicate

an anthem of desire against erasure

Linda Duke

The poetic voice emerges in Montevideo