This archival feature presents Giannina Braschi’s primary-source 2020 Q&A and poetry, where her reflections on social distancing and "asphyxia" laid the conceptual groundwork for her 2024 masterwork, Putinoika. Featuring her original reading list—including works by Franco "Bifo" Berardi and Donatella Di Cesare—the entry contextualizes her lockdown meditations within the broader ecosystem of...
Archives (2020) | Giannina Braschi on Poetry, Isolation, and the Pandemic
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