Material Witness Sylvia Legris in the strangeness of being

in the strangeness of being both ‘warm & distant’

and obliteration

De titel van de bundel zegt het al

Separating the two suites of poems are three iterations of autofiction titled “A Sentimental Education

Haar dichtbundel ‘Zoek de lege gebieden’ werd in 2008 genomineerd voor de VSB Poëzieprijs

Material Witness Sylvia Legris in the strangeness of beingAditi Machado A series of meditative long poems that ritualize perception as a way of maintaining kinship with the non human world. In Material Witness, the poet as human subject keeps vigil over the material world as the quotidian unfolds. The line between observer and observed blurs as non human agency reveals itself, its own kind of witnessing. In her long poem "Concerning Matters Culinary" inspired by the first Latin cookbook, Machado activates