Flag De danser en de monnik Als je dit jaar slechts

Als je dit jaar slechts één bundel leest

As if the relic of a long-forgotten history

De wereld en het mensdom bespiegelend

and African American vernacular culture

"The super-electron microscope Berg has used in her research shows the world's smallest particles—the vibrations of strings (belly buttons

Flag De danser en de monnik Als je dit jaar slechtsImani Elizabeth Jackson '"We are and were a Black family," Jackson writes and the dead matter of history hums. In this book of nearly subterranean intensity, I feel the poet hum, and it erodes borders between the poet's mouth and the river's, between forms of matter and states of consciousness. I feel Black life too, in its impossible thickness, and all of this in a beautiful economy of language that seizes without coercion and shapes without chisel.