Soul House Ter gelegenheid van poëzie and literary theorist

and literary theorist

daily life and the scenes and sounds of Vienna to find a new language for grief and aging--"I am counted among the aging ones though I would prefer to consort with the young (rose of their cheeks)

Jennifer Nelson

and unparalleled

contemporary body – and its particular journey of love

Soul House Ter gelegenheid van poëzie and literary theoristMireille Gansel, translation Joan Seliger Sidney In the first book of her poetry to appear in English, acclaimed French Jewish poet, translator, and translation theorist Mireille Gansel crisscrosses time and extends hospitality to exiled poets and peoples in her quest to recreate a lost literary and spiritual home. Gansel opens this meditative volume of prose poems with an epigraph from Gaston Bachelard: 'against all odds, the house invites us to say: