LEX ICON Merel van Slobbe

LEX ICON Merel van SlobbeSalette Tavares For the first time appearing in English translation, the poems in LEX ICON present everyday objects through the lens of modern art and abstraction. The habitual uses of objects that these poems study point to the inherent philosophical content of the human capacity to produce, or poiesis. Much as abstraction in its representation of things as pictorial patterns at times distills the geometrical shape of an object by shedding its

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