Emblem XEclogue Nadia de Vries

Nadia de Vries

and his polemical views that appeared in manifestos

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Will Alexander pushes poetic language to the point of most resistance

By intertwining myth and tradition with the familiar objects and smells of his lived present

Emblem XEclogue Nadia de VriesLucy Mercer In ghostly conversation with the sixteenth century emblematist Andrea Alciato a witness to a lonely time the poems of this debut collection are carried forward by a non linear dream logic of metaphor and similitude, speaking pictures who remain silent and a focus on an adjacent imaginal world. As well as reusing images from Alciatos emblem book, the poems fixate on alternating relations between text and image that blur into relations