![]() ![]() The book is a collection of three long poems: “HELL,” “LIGHT,”and “FLESH” each forming a layer of the poetic corpus. In the poem “HAND” we read: “Ow / Owl / Ow’ll / like some new kind of 1st person / accidentally saying I’ll (isle) I will.” Here meaningful play on auditory perception permits du Plessis to use the full spectrum of linguistic sound to map a schema of neurological pathways, giving new meaning to the illegible. Hell Light Flesh takes all words at face value, and, through the process of repetition and introspection, reveals the primal abstraction of all language and speech. In her new poetry collection Hell Light Flesh, Klara du Plessis delves into the heart of linguistics in an attempt to do with language everything that surface linguistics denies the common speaker. This piece originally appeared in Issue 3.42 (Fall 2020). ![]()
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