Logocinema of the Frontiersman Jolas’s Multilingual Poetics

Jolas’s Multilingual Poetics and its Legacies

published in Kunapipi, 1999, pp. 145-63.

Language became a neurosis. I used three of the basic world languages in conversation, in poetry and in my newspaper work. I was never able to decide which of them I preferred. An almost inextricable chaos ensued, and sometimes I sought a facile escape by intermingling all three. I dreamed […]