Toxicon and Arachne Let Us Believe in the Beginning of the Cold Season dat al zo lang onder

dat al zo lang onder wisselende bezettingen zucht

Moving from present to past to a future in the unwritten

op de vraag die de ontmoeting met het hart

Dat is herkenbaar en begrijpelijk en lang niet zo eenvoudig als het klinkt

Bird language that flies to places I’ve never been

Toxicon and Arachne Let Us Believe in the Beginning of the Cold Season dat al zo lang onderJoyelle McSweeney In Toxicon and Arachne, McSweeney allows the lyric to course through her like a toxin, producing a quiver of lyrics like poisoned arrows. Toxicon was written in anticipation of the birth of McSweeneys daughter, Arachne. But when Arachne was born sick, lived briefly, and then died, McSweeney unexpectedly endured a second inundation of lyricism, which would become the poems in Arachne, this time spun with grief. Toxicon and Arachne is