The Shutters Audre Lorde A central feature of that

A central feature of that book was the speaker’s disorienting use of “she/I

the meaning of duration and the work of love

the sublime and the ephemeral

it ends with an encomium to the modernist Malagasy poet Jean-Joseph Rabearivelo—two writers whose luminous art suffered 'colonial wrath through refraction

and was ignorant of most literature

The Shutters Audre Lorde A central feature of thatAhmed Bouanani (trans. Emma Ramadan) The Shutters collects the two most important poetry collections The Shutters and Photograms by the legendary Moroccan writer Ahmed Bouanani. By intertwining myth and tradition with the familiar objects and smells of his lived present, Bouanani reconstructs vivid images of Morocco's past. He weaves together references to the Second World War, the Spanish and French protectorates, the Rif War, dead soldiers,