Suede Mantis / Soft Rage Kay Gabriel newly and assuredly translated by

newly and assuredly translated by Laura Cesarco Eglin

waarin het persoonlijke en politieke

but for how she depicts the precarity of such beauty: interspersed between stems in full bloom are those that have wilted or decayed

this book-length poem weaves memoir

both rigorously logical and dizzyingly sublime

Suede Mantis / Soft Rage Kay Gabriel newly and assuredly translated byJennifer Soong Swaying between command and curiosity, acquiescence and destruction, distance and proximity, Jennifer Soongs Suede Mantis Soft Rage proffers tenderness that teeters on the precipice of loss. Premised on this peril is not a paralyzing grief but a generative poiesis of cruel desperation, in which poetry pronounces itself in contrasts and conditionals, had beens and renunciations. Like a tongue that tans flesh, like passion thats made