Exhausted on the Cross Dorothea Lasky it forces us to look

it forces us to look head-on at the language of globalization and ethnocentrism and the changing tide of thought and culture within our own society

[…] Een absoluut hoogtepunt uit de Nederlandstalige lyriek van de 20ste eeuw

Naar de lichamen van de geliefden naast wie de dichter's ochtends wakker wordt

and in her own country remains a touchstone for poets and readers looking for rawness of perception

Exhausted on the Cross Dorothea Lasky it forces us to lookNajwan Darwish We drag histories behind us, the Palestinian poet Najwan Darwish writes in Exhausted on the Cross, here where theres neither land nor sky. In pared down lines, brilliantly translated from the Arabic by Kareem James Abu Zeid, Darwish records what Ral Zurita describes as something immemorial, almost unspeakablea poetry driven by a moral imperative to be a colossal record of violence and, at the same time, the no less colossal record of