LEX ICONSalette Tavares For the first time appearing in English translation, the poems in LEX ICON present everyday objects through the lens of modern art and abstraction. The habitual uses of objects that these poems study point to the inherent philosophical content of the human capacity to produce, or poiesis. Much as abstraction in its representation of things as pictorial patterns at times distills the geometrical shape of an object by shedding its

but part of that power has also been the sensitive and intimate way Giovanni is able to bring to light the heart and soul of herself and her readers

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It was the way in which a private voice was heard to speak for the concerns of an entire generation

investing instead in transcontinental dreamspaces

in the strangeness of being both ‘warm & distant’

the hag rises

In her own words

ideological pressures

social and cultural criticism and was an accomplished painter

defies history

and to overflow what fits too tightly

waarbij zijn poëzie niet mag ontbreken