The Crystal Text Osip Mandelstam een ‘onveilige zoektocht in taal’

een ‘onveilige zoektocht in taal’ over vrouwelijke belichaamde herinnering en rouw

Rouse brings Ruysch and Ruysch into dialogue with other sources

Now side by side with Desnos's French

The War of the Orchards (1971)

these poems offer up tangling

The Crystal Text Osip Mandelstam een ‘onveilige zoektocht in taal’Clark Coolidge In the summer of 1982, Clark Coolidge received an unexpected gift of a crystal; small, clear, entirely unexceptional, the crystal nonetheless provoked the poet into writing what has long been considered his masterpiece, The Crystal Text (1986). A durational poem composed over the course of 10 months, in daybook like entries of varying length, The Crystal Text is multifaceted and elusive, constantly interrogating itself. Is it a