Romania took hold of my heart in 2015 and since then has consumed my mind and soul. As with any genuine commitment, my relationship with this beautiful, complex country has grown and deepened over time as I have learned of its many tragedies, as well as its many triumphs. I have surrendered myself to Romania. [...] As I continue my Romanian journey, I marvel over the resiliency and fortitude of the people. I am fortunate to have developed close relationships, familial in many ways, with many Romanians. And I am eternally grateful to have been granted a Fulbright and honored to become part of this amazing community.
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We are pleased to announce that Jeremy Allan Hawkins, a Fulbright ETA at Transilvania University of Brașov back in 2008-2009, has just released a new volume of his poetry works, entitled enditem. (Beir Bua Press, 2023)
To celebrate the event, Jeremy invites you to participate in a free online book launch on Friday, January 27, 2023, at 8 p.m. GMT. Reserve a spot here.
About the book
“This book represents an attempt to transform a corpus of material I originally wrote as a journalist covering European politics in crisis, a corpus that over time has come to represent, in my eyes, complicity with institutional cruelty. Eventually it became clear to me that I needed to submit that writing to a process of détournment, so as to, on one hand, break the false veneer of objectivity or impartiality, and on the other, to reactivate the text in ways that would reveal the already embedded logics hidden within. While writing, I made use of a variety of strategies, including text randomizers, collage techniques, erroneous translation, and language filters, varying these predominantly material practices through the different pieces. The result is, I think, a text that makes apparent the constant violence of our political discourse, which is in turn transmitted, amplified, and even enacted by the organs and agents of the apparatuses of power. In that sense, this work represents a kind of testimony and confession. I wish it had less pertinence today than when it was first written, but then the sea around which we talked continues to open and receive.”
About the author
“Jeremy Allan Hawkins a French-American poet and author of A Clean Edge (BOAAT, 2017), selected by Richard Siken as winner of the 2016 BOAAT Chapbook Prize. His poetry has been selected for the Best New Poets anthology series, and the extended program of the 2018 Venice Architecture Biennial. He is a lecturer at the Strasbourg National School of Architecture and pursues research at the points of contact between poetic practices and spatial design.”
More details: enditem by Jeremy Allan Hawkins – Beir Bua Press