The Month of the Flies Grond malformed poetry

malformed poetry

allowing readers to imagine new ways of processing their own world

and one box waits within another “Where the waterslides bow / in pursuit of summer

to Abomey and the Dahomeyan Amazons

An early pillar of Black poetics and a world unto itself

The Month of the Flies Grond malformed poetryMirtha Dermisache In The Month of the Flies, Dermisaches book functions as the original from which Chejfecs poetic text takes shape as a possible translation. Chejfecs lines are dynamic, occupying the same space as each of Dermisaches lines, as if using language to approach her visual frequencies. The project explores the unfathomable depths of Dermisache graphisms by exposing the cracks in the legibility of such a translation, a translation which,