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Rose McLaren is an artist in London.



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Talk Into My Bullet Hole

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July 2015

Rose McLaren

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July 2015

‘Someday people are going to read about you in a story or a poem. Will you describe yourself for those people?’ ‘Oh, I don’t...

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May 2014

Art Does Not Know a Beyond: On Karl Ove Knausgaard

Rose McLaren

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May 2014

Karl Ove Knausgaard’s My Struggle has an oddly medieval form: a cycle, composed of six auto-biographical books about the...

Diana’s Tree, Alejandra Pizarnik’s fourth collection, was published in 1962, when the poet was barely 26 years old Named after a tree-shaped silvery amalgam that alchemists referred to as the Philosopher’s Tree, the book’s title made subtle allusions to the cult of Artemis, the pursuit of knowledge and the poet’s native Argentina With it, Pizarnik would establish the poetic voice that had already garnered her recognition in Buenos Aires and among her circle of literary expats in Paris Diana’s Tree is a cycle of thirty-eight poems The pieces published in this issue speak to the assurance of a poetic voice that is already experimenting with new ideas of temporality and paradox —Y S *   15 I miss forgetting the hour of my birth I miss no longer playing the role of recent arrival       *       16 you have built your house you have feathered your birds you have beaten against the wind with your own bones you have finished on your own what no one ever started       *       17 Days when a distant word takes hold of me I go through those days, sleepwalking and transparent The beautiful wind-up doll sings to herself, charms herself, tells herself stuff and stories: a nest made of stiff thread where I dance and lament myself at my countless funerals (She is her own blazing mirror, her spare for the cold bonfires, her mystical element, her adultery with the names that crop up alone on pallid evenings)       *       18 like a poem that’s aware of the silence of things you speak so as not to see me     *     This sequence of poems was selected for inclusion in the January 2015 Translation Issue by Daniel Medin, a contributing editor of The White Review He helps direct the Center for Writers and Translators at the American University of Paris, and is an editor of The Cahiers Series and Music & Literature

Contributor

August 2014

Rose McLaren

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August 2014

Rose McLaren is an artist in London.

The Prosaic Sublime of Béla Tarr

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Issue No. 6

Rose McLaren

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Issue No. 6

I have to recognise it’s cosmical; the shit is cosmical. It’s not just social, it’s not just ontological, it’s really huge. And that’s why we...
Stalker, Writer or Professor? Geoff Dyer's Zona and Genre

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February 2012

Rose McLaren

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February 2012

‘So what kind of a writer am I, reduced to writing a summary of a film?’ wonders Geoff Dyer half way through Zona. Such...

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poetry

January 2015

Litanies of an Audacious Rosary

Enrique Vila-Matas

TR. Rosalind Harvey

poetry

January 2015

FEBRUARY 2008   * I’m outraged, but I’ve learned a way of reasoning that quickly defuses my exasperation. This...

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October 2015

War is Easy, Peace is Hard

Alexander Christie-Miller

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October 2015

At around midday on 19 July, Koray Türkay boarded a bus in Istanbul and set off for the Syrian...

fiction

October 2014

The Trace

Forrest Gander

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October 2014

 La Esmeralda, Mexico   She knocked on the bathroom door.   ‘Can I come in to shower?’   ‘En...

 

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