Material Witness Extracting the Stone of Madness from normal life

from normal life

This publication gathers all issues of the magazine with an introduction by poet and scholar David Grundy

the First Gulf War

in de krochten van de popcultuur

Yi Sang (trans

Material Witness Extracting the Stone of Madness from normal lifeAditi Machado A series of meditative long poems that ritualize perception as a way of maintaining kinship with the non human world. In Material Witness, the poet as human subject keeps vigil over the material world as the quotidian unfolds. The line between observer and observed blurs as non human agency reveals itself, its own kind of witnessing. In her long poem "Concerning Matters Culinary" inspired by the first Latin cookbook, Machado activates