Material Exercises N.H. Pritchard

Material Exercises N.H. PritchardBlanca Varela (trans. Carlos Lara) Flesh wounds, flies, flowers, and freedom. Blanca Varelas Material Exercises is a declaration of divine oblivion vis vis a violent mysticism. Here, no soul ascends to commune with a vengeful deity: salvation is not achieved from bodily punishment but found in the poetic possibility that emerges from the corporeal tension between tactility and spirituality, night and day, the cogito and the empirical, where language

beyond the North American earth

brand new dances

Spoken word is een ware performance

sleep shapes sentences and distorts conventions

her writing roams the Indo-European language family

has only recently been recognized with a retrospective exhibit at Reina Sofia (Madrid) and Museo Jumex (Mexico City)

Melgard’s work cleaves personal agency from automated defaults by mapping trauma and technocracy from the inside out

has sunk her thoughts in her everyday perceptions to capture the continuity of a reality that

and his poems sound remarkably contemporary:

pre-modernist poet who wrote in Galician calling on women to speak

queer lyric mobilises all aspects of language to reveal contradictions of capitalism and defuse populist rhetoric

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