POST-MORTEM OF THE EVENT, Klara du Plessis

Klara du Plessis

Poetry
ISBN-13: 978-1-990293-77-1
$21.95 CDN / $20.95 US | Trade Paperback
September 2024

“Recording the event say, I am the event.”

The event represents the lyrical, but an attempt at defining the event endlessly defers meaning—poetry readings, death, belonging, the digital and— Post-Mortem of the Event is a cyclical archive that twists back to recorded readings of Klara du Plessis’s earlier Hell Light Flesh and leans forward to invoke a still unwritten manuscript. Here poetic composition encompasses audiovisual media, transcription, wave form visualization, and digital humanities and interdisciplinary methods. With the maturity of three previous collections, Du Plessis presents a brilliant expansion of her musical yet essayistic poetics.