abjekt tala

Här ordsätter jag fragment av den översatta, avlyssnade, genomlevda och levrade rösten från platsen mellan, från det trinitäras terräng. Området mellan subjektets inhägnad och objektets bårhus.
Och återger terrängens (klyftans) litterära speglingar och vindlande spår.




She hungered for a different story - one to respell the world she knew




Fotnavlad

Fotnavlad
What we seek is love itself, revealed now and again in human form, but pushing us beyond our humanity into animal instict and god-like success. There is no love that does not pierce the hands and feet... Jeanette Winterson. Love, the deadly wound from which my life slowly bleeds, there I am preserved ...Birgitta Trotzig

tisdag 15 mars 2011

Heras


En amasonisk initiering - när plats, kropp och benämning knyts samman i
Valans knut av då/nu/framtid.

The battle lusting Amazons set up
a wooden image, under oak, in Ephesus
by the sea, and Hippo performed a
holy sacrifice to you. Queen Oupis,
first around the oak, they danced
a leaping battle dance with shields
and then a broad ringed circle dance
the fine, clear pipes keeping time
with the stamping feet.
...
The echo raced to Sardis
and to the Berekynthian land.
Their feet stamping loudly
their quivers clattering.
Afterwards around the image
a shrine was built on broad foundations.
Nothing more divine, nor richer
does Eos see, it easily surpasses Pytho.
(Callimachus Hymn III: To Artemis)

... the quest to reclaim that symbolising/naming power, to refigure the female self from a gynocentric perspective, to discover, revitalise and create a female oral and visual mythical tradition and use it, ultimately, to change the world...

Monster, by Robin Morgan, 1971 ..... We are the myths. We are the Amazons, the Furies, the Witches. We have never not been ...

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