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An examination of poetic license that proves as pertinent today as it did upon its first publication

Antjie Krog

and reprinted as Sentenced he Gives a Shape (Zasterle)

Shifting the Silence Recalculating de derde bundel van LiekeEtel Adnan Shifting the Silence does just that: breaks the social taboo around writing and speaking about our own deaths. Published in the year before her death, Adnan enumerated in this book her personal struggle to conceptualize the breadth of her own life, the process of aging, and the knowledge of her own inevitable death. The personal is continuously projected outwards and mirrored back through ruminations on climate catastrophe, California