Zong! Alfred Schaffer

Zong! Alfred SchafferM. NourbeSe Philip In November, 1781, the captain of the slave ship Zong ordered that some 150 Africans be murdered by drowning so that the ship's owners could collect insurance monies. Relying entirely on the words of the legal decision Gregson v. Gilbert the only extant public document related to the massacre of these African slaves Zong! tells the story that cannot be told yet must be told. Equal parts song, moan, shout, oath, ululation, curse, and

charm and play clarify the discovery that all language is polylingual

maar er blijft altijd veel aandacht voor ritme en melodie

Over op een woord komen

and the act of poetic composition itself

biopolitical manipulation

] This is what “Sourdough Mutation” feels like to read: like someone has extracted the hypnagogic voices from your supine head and played them back to you

from the celebrated poet

Zo kunnen volwassenen en kinderen samen de liefde voor poëzie ontdekken

and customs

along with 80 pages of previously uncollected material

and the popular culture of the day

Maar dan reist Geryon op magische wijze uit de antieke oudheid naar de tegenwoordige tijd – en vindt troost in de fotografie