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critic and artist Alice Notley
at times uncomfortable or disturbing questions
“remains a beacon to artists
the state of contemporary Dutch politics and – via Susan Sontag’s Illness as Metaphor – the rhetoric surrounding her disease
Using Alice Notley's 1981 poem 'The Prophet' as an intertextual launchpad
The Past De introductie van het plot critic and artist Alice NotleyWendy Xu Born in Shandong, China, in 1987, Wendy Xu immigrated to the United States in 1989, three days ahead of the events of Thiananmen Square. The Past probes the multi generational binds of family, displacement, and immigration as an ongoing psychic experience without end. Moving spontaneously between lyric, fragment, prose, and subversions in "traditional" Chinese forms, the book culminates in a centerpiece series of "Tiananmen Sonnets" to
