Awaiting Kokanje Desnos's Night of Loveless Nights

Desnos's Night of Loveless Nights – written in tribute to legendary French chanteuse Yvonne George in 1926 – is a maelstrom of romantic despair

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voor een mens

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Awaiting Kokanje Desnos's Night of Loveless NightsCharisse Pearlina Weston Part autobiography, part play, part fictive dream as long poem, Awaiting begins by detaching phrases and motifs from two seemingly disparate plays (Lorraine Hansberrys What Use are Flowers? and Samuel Becketts Waiting for Godot) and entangling them into centos or poetic remixes. Through the incorporation of these entanglements, original poetry, and a surreal landscape, what develops is a new work blurring the sightlines of