The Trees Witness EverythingVictoria Chang In The Trees Witness Everything, Victoria Chang reinvigorates language by way of concentration, using constraint to illuminate and free the wild interior. Largely composed in various Japanese syllabic forms called wakas, each poem is shaped by pattern and count. This highly original work innovates inside the lineage of great poets including W. S. Merwin, whose poem titles are repurposed as frames and mirrors for the text, stitching past

En hoe verhoud je je tot de wereld in dergelijke omstandigheden

that a man writes of the world outside while a woman will turn to the interior

Ook zitten er persoonlijke gedichten tussen

Edward van de Vendel & Martijn van der Linden

Vehicle is a feat of ungovernable imagination

translated by Mona Kareem

offering the burst of intensity only artificial flavors can provide

zijn liedteksten en zijn ongepubliceerde gedichten maakte Ester Naomi Perquin een ruime

pre-modernist poet who wrote in Galician calling on women to speak

and Rachel Kushner

Nay Saysourinho

The result is the liveliest twentieth-century version of the classic