As Though the Wound Had Heard Wat je moet doen als je over een nijlpaard struikelt 000 years by exiles and

000 years by exiles and refugees

And what is the subject but a stitching

as it has emerged since the 1960s

" --Cole Swensen

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As Though the Wound Had Heard Wat je moet doen als je over een nijlpaard struikelt 000 years by exiles andMara Pastor 'Words rarely fail us. Rather, its often the other way around. A poem like Mara Pastors Man reminds me of how much we undercut and burden them with the task of unidirectional sense making. It lodges in my mindparasitic, tapeworm likefor its odd humor, unsettling ambiguity, and refusal to budge. The Busts of Mart is a comedic take on polyvocality. Mara Jos Gimnezs translations capture the quirks of Pastors playful sensibility, and what