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H of H PlaybookAnne Carson H of H Playbook is an explosion of thought, in drawings and language, about a Greek tragedy called Herakles by the 5th century BC poet Euripides. In myth Herakles is an embodiment of manly violence who returns home after years of making war on enemies and monsters (his famous Labors of Herakles) to find he cannot adapt himself to a life of peacetime domesticity. He goes berserk and murders his whole family. Suicide is his next idea.

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there is yet something about Dobran’s clear-eyed view out onto the actual existing world that bestows a kind of proleptic clarity on the Skinner box of the present: the poetic defamiliarization at play is not the techno-stunned alienation of modernism but something older and more stoic

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and with keen and insightful language

Translated by Carlos Lara

Jan Glas en Nydia Ecury

Tonnus Oosterhoff

Value here is chosen conviviality

and it is also a world where words can cut the world in half and give it back to itself but rarefied this time

but also contemporary scholars of race

Charlotte Mutsaers

and to do all this through a cross-generational process of translation as poetic communion

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