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Before LyricismEleni Vakalo Winner of the 2018 Best Translated Book Award for Poetry, Before Lyricism includes six book length poems: "The Forest" (1954), "Plant Upbringing" (1956), "Diary of Age" (1958), "Description of the Body" (1959), "The Meaning of the Blind" (1962), and "Our Way of Being in Danger" (1966). Each of these, apart from Plant Upbringing, was published as a separate book, which Vakalo herself designed. (Plant Upbringing was originally included in

written to Fawwaz Traboulsi

A number of the poems are inspired or influenced by a technique of the international literary avant-garde group Oulipo

over haar reis om Rome te ‘zoeken’ en over de strijd om daar haar gevoelens van existentiële vervreemding te overwinnen

originally published by Face Press in three separate editions in 2020 and 2021

voor circulatie en zijn afwijzing van de temporele logica die de moderniteit en het vooruitgangsoptimisme hadden gekenmerkt

at the edge of sleep

schimmel en bacterie een stem te geven

like a saint's skull or a cock

Imagine the sun burning a hole through the paper

commedia dell'arte

de escritura

Written in response to producer Gastone Ferranti's request for his comments on a set of newsreel items