Vexations Gelman Annelyse
Vexations Gelman Annelyse A mother and daughter journey together through a strange speculative world in this experimental book-length poem.Annelyse Gelman's book-length poem Vexations is a surreal,…
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Vexations Gelman Annelyse
A mother and daughter journey together through a strange speculative world in this experimental book-length poem.Annelyse Gelman's book-length poem Vexations is a surreal, glitchy meditation on empathy, ecology, and precarity. All the while, they also navigate a condition that affects the daughter's empathic abilities, making her vulnerable to emotional contagion.Vexations is titled and structured after Erik Satie's composition of the same name, a piece that requires patience, endurance, and concentration from both its audience and its players. Throughout the book winds a narrative about a mother and daughter as they move through a world of social and economic collapse in search of a post-capitalist safe haven.
Hers is an ambient poetry, drawing on the Similarly, Gelman's Vexations employs repetition and variation to engage the reader's attention.