All My Dead Jesters Song of the Yellow Asters In myth Herakles is an

In myth Herakles is an embodiment of manly violence who returns home after years of making war on enemies and monsters (his famous “Labors of Herakles”) to find he cannot adapt himself to a life of peacetime domesticity

scheepsjournalen en kauwen die code-switchen

Schijnbaar toevallige observaties leggen de zenuw bloot die de dagelijkse waanzin met de chaos van een losgeslagen wereld verbindt

and violence that follow direct addresses of whiteness

All My Dead Jesters Song of the Yellow Asters In myth Herakles is anNadia de Vries A suite of swans that cannot swim; a thatch of old works and new; of jokes that landed well, and others that sank; a paean to Nike as she refutes her name, and trades Victory! as any connotation for the aura and atmosphere of nekos strife; fifty two hands on a tired, analogue body. All My Dead Jesters is an assembly of select poems previously published in de Vries first two English language collectionsDark Hour and I Failed to Swoon