Set in Campinas, Brazil. Reviewed on 2018/06: https://www.instagram.com/p/BkFaEtVFwlj/
“I’m your nerve. I’m your only nerve. With it, I touch the infinite. I know nothing of the throat. Is it all around you? Does it only sing? Does it praise me? So eat of me, eating me you’ll know me. Don’t meditate. Suck. Go to the sap, to the subtlety. You weigh as much as a straw, I don’t hear you. Open a path, open another, try, I said sap I did, I said suck, I said eat of me. Do you still hear me? Did you say WORD?” A few words from the one and only #hildahilst . I couldn’t have asked for a better way to end my special #semanabrasileira . Last week @nightboat_books sent me this galley of their new translation coming out this July. And I thank them immensely. If you’re familiar with #hilst ‘s work, #fluxofloema is going to confirm and transcend what you already love about her. Her #poetryreaches #ethereal levels here. Her #streamofconsciousness style has some remnants of #oulipo as well no doubt about it. Although she also seems to reside in her own hermetic and beautiful place. Warning: This is a #beauty that hurts you, doesn’t forgive nor forget, disappoints you, can’t commit, spits at you, cheats on you, and ultimately can’t let you go. Contradictory, ambiguous, #visceral and raw, Hilst makes me feel alive, but in a very intimate way and to the core of it. Her books are a map to reach the subatomic particles of our lives. She’s not talking to you, not interested. However this is food for your neutrons! #highlyrecommended#campinas #nightboatbooks#newtranslation #alexandrajoyforman#beinghumanornot #essence #chaos #porn#brazilianliterature
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