Tremble Sandrine Verstraete Plainspeak reinvents play and logic

Plainspeak reinvents play and logic

political poems of the 1970s and 1980s into English for the first time

It also seems like it could have been an indirectly rejuvenative process for the poetic voice itself

filled with desiring bodies

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Tremble Sandrine Verstraete Plainspeak reinvents play and logicFatema Abdoolcarim Tremble, Fatema Abdoolcarims debut collection of poems, is an intimate and involving sequence on fertility and faith. A memoir in verse, these poems relate encounters with the animal other, the uncertain, but always echoing the tender rituals of family, food, prayer. Abdoolcarim thinks through what it means to care and to mother at a time where atrocity makes those systems of loving seem out of reach. Tremble traces the sensual and