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Digital Poetics 3.7 Beyond the Pale, or Crossing Borders with ‘The Books of Jacob’ by So Mayer
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Digital Poetics 3.7 Beyond the Pale, or Crossing Borders with ‘The Books of Jacob’ by So Mayer

So Mayer’s review of ‘The Books of Jacob’ looks at how Olga Tokarczuk explores Jacob Frank as a border-dweller; as a Jew who converted to both Islam and Christianity; as a Messiah who numinously embodies the Divine in the material plane; and as a patriarch whose body subversively expresses queer and trans desires.

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Digital Poetics 3.5 ‘Word for Faith’ and ‘Homecoming’ by Rana Banna
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Digital Poetics 3.5 ‘Word for Faith’ and ‘Homecoming’ by Rana Banna

Two poems written during the major uprisings of Palestinian resistance against ongoing Israeli occupation in 2021. ‘Word for Faith’ considers the false promise made to the Palestinians expelled from their homes in 1948 that they would one day return. It examines the necessity of a wilful faith in the words of an oath or a vow in order for language itself to function successfully, and yet, the inevitable vacuousness of political rhetoric. ‘Homecoming’ offers an account of a displaced Palestinian visiting their homeland, the premeditated ways in which this is made into an arduous and intimidating process, and, in spite of this, their perpetual — seemingly ethereal — bond with the land.

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Digital Poetics 3.4 from ‘Dissonance and Authenticity’ by Robert Kiely
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Digital Poetics 3.4 from ‘Dissonance and Authenticity’ by Robert Kiely

This is an extract from 'Dissonance and Authenticity,' a meditation on class, staircases, and meritocracy. It begins by describing interdependent classes as a higher dimensional knot projected onto the present, meanders through grades and discipline and job hunts, and ends with a discussion of intergenerational eating habits. “The only thing more provinicial than provinciality is the critique of provincialism, you can extrapolate from that.”

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