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and the commentary draws on a wide range of published sources

Maud Vanhauwert

Marjoleine de Vos

he makes palpable the idea that radically new structures

As Though the Wound Had Heard Seven Rooms and the commentary draws onMara Pastor 'Words rarely fail us. Rather, its often the other way around. A poem like Mara Pastors Man reminds me of how much we undercut and burden them with the task of unidirectional sense making. It lodges in my mindparasitic, tapeworm likefor its odd humor, unsettling ambiguity, and refusal to budge. The Busts of Mart is a comedic take on polyvocality. Mara Jos Gimnezs translations capture the quirks of Pastors playful sensibility, and what