Fragile July by Oscar Nearly Pam Rehm human mixture of vulnerability and

human mixture of vulnerability and grit

the Flemish poet Maarten Inghels set up a project of the same name

social or otherwise

These two books mark a turning point in Blandiana’s poetic evolution: they lead towards a new conception of poetry as a reflection on being that culminates in My Native Land A4 (first published in Romania in 2010 and published in English by Bloodaxe in 2014)

of politics and identity and the absurdities of reality TV

Fragile July by Oscar Nearly Pam Rehm human mixture of vulnerability andFragile July by Oscar Nearly is a mesmeric, slow burn excavation of memory, trauma, and domestic unreality, rendered through the porous, looping rhythms of prose poetry. Framed as a forensic reconstruction of a childhood summer, the text interweaves photographic description, childhood games, fragmentary scenes, and the ominous repetition of family motifs, digging, watching, swinging, with a precise, dissociative calm. Nearly's style is hallucinatory