Young AmericansJackqueline Frost Young Americans by Jackqueline Frost is a poetry collection that conjures a present teeming with the decadent violence of the confederate South. The book is a narrative of becoming in the wartime petroleum landscape of southern Louisiana. Faulknerian in its themes and in its taste for the baroque, Frosts lyric explores the melancholy of belonging to the enormous bliss of American death in places where one must learn what love is from

Shortlisted for the 2023 PEN America Award for Poetry in Translation

’ Writers don’t own their words

met Wil je mij poëzie leren

Dit schept een onontkoombaar spel tussen tekst en beeld

These stories

Ze ademen de tijd waarin ze werden geschreven

Originally published in 1939

The sequences fall into two sections

and Chinese heritage is intrinsically intertwined with Cuba’s history of slavery and indentured labor

with an inquisitive and searching voice stretched over one long

and she waged a lifelong battle against depression

proza en poëzie