Self-Portrait in the Zone of SilenceHomero Aridjis Self Portrait in the Zone of Silence, by the renowned Mexican writer Homero Aridjis, is a brilliant collection of poems written in and for the new century. Aridjis seeks spiritual transformation through encounters with mythical animals, family ghosts, migrant workers, Mexico's oppressed, female saints, other writers (such as Jorge Luis Borges and Philip Lamantia), and naked angels in the metro. We find tributes to Goya and Heraclitus,

and stories

love as a red raincoat come from another poem

raakt op leeftijd

and capital

a Guggenheim Fellowship

like feelings

who she had met in the late seventies

Poetry as both a form and genre has many possibilities to exist within

though in many ways Spicer's innovative writing ran counter to that of his contemporaries in the New York School and the West Coast Beat movement

the echoes of reincarnated lives

Rozalie Hirs (1965) is de Jan Campert-prijs 2023 toegekend

Marilyn Hacker