Aster of CeremoniesJJJJJerome Ellis 'In Aster of Ceremonies, JJJJJerome Ellis shows how an involuntary stoppage can become a baptism, an infinite offering. Accompanying our formerly enslaved and sometimes speechless, our fleeing and sometimes stuttering ancestors, Ellis acknowledges how the surrender, the space where the voices we would raise in the services of liberation, instead 'fall to their knees, ' opening space for interspecies eldership, fugitive kinship.

Leslie Kaplan

in which Dionne Brand’s diaspora consciousness dismantles our quotidian disasters

her words are separated by slashes

anarchic medium for staying alive

zwemmen gaan

op de vraag die de ontmoeting met het hart

Eva Meijer vangt wat ze ziet in een nieuwe vorm voor deze tijd

I Remember is both uproariously funny and deeply moving

where he is a professor of creative writing at NYU

not we’ as if to measure breath itself as an act of refusal

each prefaced by the refrain 'I remember'

De gedichten in Rampensuites zijn ontstaan in 2005-2006