I Sugar the Bones vader zeker in de naoorlogse jaren

zeker in de naoorlogse jaren

and his emotional visit home after a thirteen-year separation (“the mother tongue has deepened my foreignness”)

Ter opluistering van de algehele vrolijkheid opent de bundel ook nog eens met een lang en veelvormig gedicht onder de titel ‘Huis der verbrandingen’

verhalende poëzie over koningen

door hun directheid en toegankelijkheid velen weten te raken

I Sugar the Bones vader zeker in de naoorlogse jarenJuana Adcock Through the porosity of the US Mexico border, Freudian slippages, and toxic relationships, poet Juana Adcock interrogates what it means to cross from one country into another the gradient spaces that inhabit the nexus between life and death, and the people and languages that sit either side of it. Ghostly glitches, the role of rivers, and the character of Lisa Simpson as voiced for the Latin American market all empower I Sugar the Bones