repurposing my dreamland

The author’s work is oriented toward writing poetry that is “useful” in the Brechtian sense: poetry that dares to address contemporary social discomfort without adopting an elitist stance. These texts engage directly with the tensions and contradictions of the present, seeking forms of poetic expression that remain accessible while intellectually and ethically demanding.

Despite fractures, failures, breaks, and unevenness, the poetry resonates with the tradition of the Enlightenment and articulates an egalitarian vision of humankind. It speaks out against social inequalities, examining both general and specific dynamics that shape collective life. Memory and memorization—shared and individual—are treated as active forces, inseparable from structures of thought, feeling, perception, and behavior, both one’s own and those of others.

The work remains attentive to the potential for transformation embedded within these structures, including possibilities for transgression and deviation. Formally, the poems move fluidly: verses flow, bubble, or babble; they drift and dive playfully, linger at blind spots, or strand themselves on internalized layers of association and connotation.

Through this movement, the language experiments with foreground and background, testing the boundaries between the world as it is and the world as it might be. The result is poetry that operates simultaneously as reflection, critique, and exploration—situated between reality and possibility, tradition and disruption, responsibility and play.

The project is part of the subthemes Writing After – Catastrophe, Memory, and the Archive of Loss, Disrupted Realities – Poetry and the Politics of Truth, Poetic Infrastructures – Reclaiming Space, Building Commons, Unruly Forms – Experiments in the Poetic Wild, The Poetics of Care – Intimacy, Tenderness, Repair.