Trsitia by Carmen Bugan Agnes Langeland the aesthetics of resistance

the aesthetics of resistance

safety and danger

stand as equals to humans and demand

often creating an impression of barely contained chaos which is often neatly punctured by a wry insight about reality TV or group chats

Scientists and engineers are the great explorers of our age

Trsitia by Carmen Bugan Agnes Langeland the aesthetics of resistanceIn Tristia, Carmen Bugan tests the lyric against loss once again, as everything collapses around her, but this time much closer to home. These are poems about forging a stronger self in the fires of her lifetime, whether they are the forest fires that cover the American continent, the war in Ukraine, or her own world turned to ashes. The speaker in the poem 'Enheduana' laments: He spat on my oven full of food, Walked over my baskets full of bread,