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Indictus
Indictus | Natalie Eilbert
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Poetry. Women's Studies. INDICTUS re-imagines various creation myths to bear the invisible and unsaid assaults of women. In doing so, it subverts notions of patriarchal power into a genre that can be demolished and set again. INDICTUS (…more)
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Indictus | Natalie Eilbert
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This book kind of fucked me up. It‘s a book that takes an act (or, really, several acts) of violence, and embodies it in a way that I can‘t fully articulate. The language itself is often violent, or perhaps violated. It is unsettling, and it is amazing.

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Indictus | Natalie Eilbert
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Reading this book—I‘m about halfway through it—is for sure an experience, but it‘s one I can‘t seem to articulate and one I don‘t know if I understand. The poems here are like fire, and I could tell you a word like “burn” but that doesn‘t explain the sensation unless you already know what it signifies. This is like that.