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THE BIG FLAWED HEART
Poems after Middlemarch
Krystal Languell
Read the embedded chapbook above, or download this free PDF.
George Eliot’s novel does not need a poetic CliffsNotes revision. The point here isn’t to fix anything about the book, nor to make it more accessible to a particular audience, but rather to document the mechanics of the act of reading, in the spirit of Lisa Robertson’s Nilling. The quotidian concerns and basic mistakes of these characters are intended to resonate with readers’ own concerns and mistakes since (as far as I can see) we haven’t yet solved the questions of money and love and how much is too much to ask of each other.
KRYSTAL LANGUELL lives in Chicago. She is the author of two books, Call the Catastrophists and Gray Market, and five chapbooks, including a collection of interviews, Archive Theft (Essay Press, 2015). A NYSCA/NYFA 2017 Artist Fellowship Finalist in Poetry, she previously completed a Lower Manhattan Cultural Council workspace residency in 2014-15 and a Poetry Project Emerge-Surface-Be fellowship in 2013-14. Since 2010, she has helped coordinate the activities of Belladonna* Collaborative while publishing the feminist poetry journal Bone Bouquet. She was an adjunct in New York City for seven years.
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