Emerald Wounds Ed Roberson In Mercies

In Mercies

an operatic form designed to make the reader chant if reading aloud

the book uncovers patterns in the ways that language is active in perpetuating inequality and binding its subjects to the will of those in positions of authority

this book is a necessary exercise of the literary imagination: what

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Emerald Wounds Ed Roberson In MerciesJoyce Mansour 'Among the many dark pleasures of Emerald Wounds, most marvellous is Joyce Mansour's canny adaptation of the Surrealist impulse towards revolt to subversively femme ends. In Emilie Moorhouse's astonishingly fresh translations, these palm sized poems are arousing, alarming, and, finally, transformational, offering outlandish anti psalms, sex tips from the devil, adroit instruction manuals for surviving the eradicating world. Like emeralds