The Daily Glance
Marthe Reed’s
Gaze immediately evokes the concept of the gaze discussed in much feminist literature; in addition, Reed throws in postcolonial theory as well--mostly dealing with images of Iraq and our perceptions of it. She brings up women’s treatment in Iraq while also dealing with ways of distancing from the actual war in Iraq and how this process fits into the power arrangements of the war. The forms shift from prose poetry to very short lined open forms pieces. Some of the poems use found language, while her poem for W tears at sense in word use:
error tore near noas
farls false art
leaf stone
nest
lost nets steal
Other pieces have more forward logic and present compelling cases.
Can you see this? I am writing at the edge of faith, where distance erases certainty, calligraphy reiterating the machinery of kohl. What use lining my lashes now? Blood flowers like any rose, its velvet fragrance entering into play.
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