As Though the Wound Had Heard Mira Mattar Confetti uses language to alter

Confetti uses language to alter the boundaries between film and daily life

wombs – is illuminated in chapters theorising her engagement with dissident sexualities (queerness

and with women who undertake journeys toward life (the improper) and spring (renewal)

humor wekken: poëzie kan het allemaal

told through the indignities

As Though the Wound Had Heard Mira Mattar Confetti uses language to alterMara 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