Cursive Paradise Which Once Had Been Meadow to the world’s astonishment

to the world’s astonishment

In een prachtig parlando

Wiljan van den Akker (1954) studeerde Nederlands aan de Universiteit Utrecht

the indoors and the outdoors

Cursive Paradise Which Once Had Been Meadow to the world’s astonishmentKaur Alia Ahmed Kaur Alia Ahmeds Cursive Paradise asks how a refusal of cogency can lyrically expand perception. They write, To weigh heavily on something is to decide its shape, and throw language into a state of excess. These poems shift and eddy, loop, and undulate, seeking out spaces of desire and onomatopoeic attraction. All the while, Ahmed offers a view of subjectivity and gender made resonant and malleable, insisting on language that is lush