Emerald Wounds Alice Notley becoming more a song than

becoming more a song than ever before

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with its responsibilities and manifold desires

it forces us to look head-on at the language of globalization and ethnocentrism and the changing tide of thought and culture within our own society

Emerald Wounds Alice Notley becoming more a song thanJoyce Mansour 'Among the many dark pleasures of Emerald Wounds, most marvellous is Joyce Mansour's canny adaptation of the Surrealist impulse towards revolt to subversively femme ends. In Emilie Moorhouse's astonishingly fresh translations, these palm sized poems are arousing, alarming, and, finally, transformational, offering outlandish anti psalms, sex tips from the devil, adroit instruction manuals for surviving the eradicating world. Like emeralds