Black Box Named Like to Me Sneller langzaam Beginning with the image of

Beginning with the image of the small white monkeys

Fotograaf Bianca Sistermans en dichter Eva Gerlach werkten als artist in residence twee weken op het lab van de Universiteit Twente

Mirene Arsanios

It got so dark is a book about pleasure’s recession

where the archaic suffuses us even when we do not beckon it

Black Box Named Like to Me Sneller langzaam Beginning with the image ofDiana Garza Islas Black Box Named Like to Me challenges the limits of syntax and image to hold the full scope of the imaginary in its grasp, touching on questions of motherhood, the future, memory, and the acquisition of language. The page is a zone for play, here, both in the translation and the original Spanish; words and ideas undergo radical transformation to best serve the purpose of the poems, shapeshifting at will. Vocal momentum drives these