Mireille Gansel
in her first ever English-language collection
Waar de gebraden duiven je in de mond vliegen en de koeken aan de bomen groeien
Mei-mei Berssenbrugge & Kiki Smith
these texts invoke issues of gender and race-based injustice
Comeback Death Ricardo Domeneck Mireille GanselJennifer Soong Comeback Death, Jennifer Soong's third book, weaves its registers of what Soong names as "dread, gender, sarcasm, sublimation of pain, fruit, ambition, and fecundity" through an English which is not only polyvocal but uncannily porous. Its languages (English, Russian, German, ancient Greek) underscore a perverse pastoral range that somehow bridges Oxford, New Jersey, and Lesbos. With a ferocity both musical and analytic, Soong's book