Arrangements Emma van Hooff Dat is wat poëzie vermag

Dat is wat poëzie vermag

We begin in an abandoned school

At traverses and measures the movement of silence against the movement of thought and its pauses

Both compassionate and ecologically nuanced

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Arrangements Emma van Hooff Dat is wat poëzie vermagEsther Kondo Heller Can words hold a note? Can language foam like a mouth? In their hybrid volume Arrangements, Esther Kondo Heller creates textual & visual language that escapes the page to utter and speak past the record, the archive, and the document. What arrangements exist between a mother and child? In listening to Black queer life in Berlin, Mombasa, and London the action of arranging becomes a means of sounding out a collective utterance of