And Suddenly I Was Just Dancing Diana Hamilton

And Suddenly I Was Just Dancing Diana HamiltonTilsa Otta (trans. Honora Spicer) And Suddenly I Was Just Dancing collects poetry by Tilsa Otta (Lima, 1982) in a chapbook of gender defiant, carnal movement. The rhythm of perreo carries us into an anticolonial space of sensual and sexual liberation which pushes against binaries and towards multiplicity. Curating a collective of spiritual proportions, Ottas 'New Heaven' is boisterous and honest, zany and earnest, queer and color filled. 'Tilsa Otta

and the divine tragedy of the Elizabethan magus John Dee - obsess over individual human characters and how our past informs (and informs on) our present

sinds 1997 verbonden aan de kunstenaarsgroep het Observatorium

revealing its vital energy and experimental drive through the poems Heliczer published in magazines and periodicals between 1959 and 1979

disturbing and delightful

De lezer blijft betoverd achter: hoe is het mogelijk dat iemand in woorden zo dicht bij het onzegbare kan komen

the crystal nonetheless provoked the poet into writing what has long been considered his masterpiece

as he moves from place to place

and anyone can have it

don’t want to say any more

One has first to lose faith in words

voor kenners een nieuwe kijk op de oude canon

Lantana is a kaleidoscopic assemblage of texts that experiments with centuries of poetic tradition and firmly establishes darío as one of Mexico’s most daring poets