The Vertical Interrogation of Strangers Vladimir Aristov

The Vertical Interrogation of Strangers Vladimir AristovBhanu Kapil The Vertical Interrogation of Strangers, Bhanu Kapil's full length collection of prose poems, is arranged using a series of twelve repeated questions, such as: "How will you begin?" "Describe a morning you woke without fear" "Who was responsible for the suffering of your mother?" The manuscript is set in diverse placesPunjab, Central America, England, Arizonawhere the meditations on the "interrogations" considered by the narrator are

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Galina Rymbu’s poems employ history as a discursive tool to understand the present—stories of revolution

terwijl elk gedicht afzonderlijk klaarwakker is

en Schierbeek besloot zijn eigen huis te verlaten

where the person walking by can see all the way in

] speaks to Palestine’s daily and historic erasure and insists on presence inside and outside the ancestral land

and the quotidian

schaamte en schavot

gossiped and mistreated histories form aberrant narratives as a result of an inverted mode of archival research

where he died in 1240

and prose writer Vladimir Aristov

These are weathered forms of attention: pocket songs and daybooks