Silt: Prose Poems Ernesto Laclau ISBN13: 9781906704285

ISBN13: 9781906704285

primarily horror of l'ecole belge de l'etrange variety

but on a composite of many of the people who she has encountered over the years

if she isn't careful

Silt: Prose Poems Ernesto Laclau ISBN13: 9781906704285In the late 1890s a US congressman argued that the United States had the right to seize Cuba because he believed it was made of silt that had washed out of the mouth of the Mississippi River which made it literally US soil. That story inspired Puerto Rican Jewish poet Aurora Levins Morales to apply for a writing residency in New Orleans, and to travel the length of the river from Minnesota to the Gulf Coast, doing "poet research." In Silt, she follows