Joan Darc Haroldo de Campos Handbook of Disappointed Fate highlights

Handbook of Disappointed Fate highlights a decade of Anne Boyer's interrogative writing on poetry

Aspects of ever / lasting light

and violence that follow direct addresses of whiteness

John Ashbery

Joan Darc Haroldo de Campos Handbook of Disappointed Fate highlightsNathalie Quintane (trans. by Cynthia Hogue and Sylvain Gallais Scuffing up the surface of history by scuffing up that of language, Nathalie Quintane manages to get at the myth of Joan of Arc from the inside, turning it from myth to immediate life and evoking the paradoxes and nuances that made Joan's life a double onewarrior on the surface and austere virgin underneath. Quintane works this into a metaphor for contemporary feminist self performance