Man Animal Thing Intervenir Intervene and place—Cyprus

and place—Cyprus

The poems in this debut collection emerge from the abject dialectic of baby’s psyche—where a self in formation staggers under the weight of sexual abuse

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erotic desire

Gladman’s book blurs the distinctions between text and image

Man Animal Thing Intervenir Intervene and place—CyprusAlfred Schaffer (trans. Michele Hutchison) Winner of the 2021 P. C. Hooft prize, the most important literary prize in The Netherlands for a whole oeuvre. Partly inspired by Chaka, a famous South African novel from 1931, written by Thomas Mofolo, the book charts the imaginary progress of the nineteenth century statesman and tyrant, Shaka Zulu (1787 1828). Structured around a series of daydreams and major events in Zulu's life, the poet extracts Zulu