Emblem Ibn Arabi urging deeper etymological investigations

urging deeper etymological investigations

and the psychoanalysis of grass

Ida Börjel

Addressing a beloved in whose name it is also inscribed

musical and tender’ Ruth Padel

Emblem Ibn Arabi urging deeper etymological investigationsLucy Mercer In ghostly conversation with the sixteenth century emblematist Andrea Alciato a witness to a lonely time the poems of this debut collection are carried forward by a non linear dream logic of metaphor and similitude, speaking pictures who remain silent and a focus on an adjacent imaginal world. As well as reusing images from Alciatos emblem book, the poems fixate on alternating relations between text and image that blur into relations