Poetry State Forest Confidences / Production Indonesian poet Afrizal Malna’s Document

Indonesian poet Afrizal Malna’s Document Shredding Museum moves from intimate encounters between lovers and friends to mass environmental and semantic destruction

Zeven op duizend kinderen sterft voor

‘If like Freud’s idea of hysteria – itself dead in the water – behind every symptom is a hidden pain

kus me met je kussen de kussen van je mond je adem uitgegoten

Poetry State Forest Confidences / Production Indonesian poet Afrizal Malna’s DocumentBernadette Mayer Called a consummate poet by Robert Creeley and a poet of extraordinary inventiveness, erotic energy and challenge, and ironic intelligence by Michael Palmer, Bernadette Mayer can be found in all her variety in Poetry State Forest, which contains nature poems, sonnets, prose poetry, pastiches, long sequences, and epigrams.