Emblem XEclogue Will Alexander pushes poetic language

Will Alexander pushes poetic language to the point of most resistance

Cecilia Vicuña

and his polemical views that appeared in manifestos

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Emblem XEclogue Will Alexander pushes poetic languageLucy Mercer In ghostly conversation with the sixteenth century emblematist Andrea Alciato a witness to a lonely time the poems of this debut collection are carried forward by a non linear dream logic of metaphor and similitude, speaking pictures who remain silent and a focus on an adjacent imaginal world. As well as reusing images from Alciatos emblem book, the poems fixate on alternating relations between text and image that blur into relations