Outside Texts Flag van de reine

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poignantly and recognisably human

In their hybrid volume Arrangements

Verstijvend

Of ze jaagt haar Virgula’s juist weg als duivelinnen

Outside Texts Flag van de reineEleonora Requena (trans. Guillermo Parra) Textos por fuera Outside Texts is a collection of poems that question themselves, the Spanish language, the poetic self, and the authors personal geographies within and beyond Venezuela and Argentina. Animating the texts in this book is the experience of exile and migration in response to a collapsing nation and its dramatic, ongoing crisis. These poems seek spaces to exist outside (and within) the everyday