“Recording the event say, I am the event.”
The event represents the lyrical, but an attempt at defining the event endlessly defers meaning—poetry readings, death, belonging, the digital and—
Post-Mortem of the Event
is a cyclical archive that twists back to recorded readings of Klara du Plessis's earlier
Hell Light Flesh
and leans forward to invoke a still unwritten manuscript
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Here poetic composition encompasses audiovisual media, transcription, wave form visualization, and digital humanities and interdisciplinary methods. With the maturity of three previous collections, Du Plessis presents a brilliant expansion of her musical yet essayistic poetics.