Toxicon and Arachne Just Us in de mummie van de

in de mummie van de natuur

evokes the complexity of real persons as it simultaneously reinvents multiple genres: epistle

vernietiging en rouw

cultures and memories that form us

want hij voert dwars door ons dagelijks leven

Toxicon and Arachne Just Us in de mummie van deJoyelle McSweeney In Toxicon and Arachne, McSweeney allows the lyric to course through her like a toxin, producing a quiver of lyrics like poisoned arrows. Toxicon was written in anticipation of the birth of McSweeneys daughter, Arachne. But when Arachne was born sick, lived briefly, and then died, McSweeney unexpectedly endured a second inundation of lyricism, which would become the poems in Arachne, this time spun with grief. Toxicon and Arachne is