Toxicon and ArachneJoyelle McSweeney In Toxicon and Arachne, McSweeney allows the lyric to course through her like a toxin, producing a quiver of lyrics like poisoned arrows. Toxicon was written in anticipation of the birth of McSweeneys daughter, Arachne. But when Arachne was born sick, lived briefly, and then died, McSweeney unexpectedly endured a second inundation of lyricism, which would become the poems in Arachne, this time spun with grief. Toxicon and Arachne is

met gedichten die bijten

" comes into being and Blackness on the page

/ van lange stilte slijpend staal’

intuïtief

movie stars

Alles kon een gedicht worden

Wel voor wie de poëzie van Ivo van Strijtem leest

‘opdat alles zou worden onthouden

Hij droeg voor in kippenhokken

een bezweringsdans waarin geliefde

finding in the play of dissatisfaction and endurance a prompt for new poetry

Of Course is about burnout