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All My Dead JestersNadia de Vries A suite of swans that cannot swim; a thatch of old works and new; of jokes that landed well, and others that sank; a paean to Nike as she refutes her name, and trades Victory! as any connotation for the aura and atmosphere of nekos strife; fifty two hands on a tired, analogue body. All My Dead Jesters is an assembly of select poems previously published in de Vries first two English language collectionsDark Hour and I Failed to Swoon

raising profound questions about adoption

‘opdat alles zou worden onthouden

zij houdt hem gaande

the kitchen jargon

The first and last poems in the collection are explicitly devoted to Moten’s mother

” and cogitates on life—so furnished with all its illusions and ironies—in an age consistently defined by its constant decline

In claiming this autonomy of desire

‘I didn’t invent the world

wapenbroeders en lenteliefdes

the other at the beginning of the 21st century

Een verhaa

They shadow the AIDS epidemic