Dandelions for Bhabha

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Ranging from satire to meditation to philosophy to the comic, Clara Josephs second book of poetry, Dandelions for Bhabha, is an intense engagement with philosophers and literary/cultural theorists and their controversial positions. Her poems reflect on the postmodern condition when The screaming begins at the wall / when one chick is taken and Universal Justice is dragged / to Auschwitz. The collection,divided into three sections, Descartes Lover, Jus Thinkin, and ToTalisman, engages with ethics and with thinkers such as Roland Barthes,Jeremy Bentham, Homi K. Bhabha, Paul de Man, Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault, Mahatma Gandhi, Stephen Greenblatt, David Hume, Friedrich Nietzsche, Jean-Paul Sartre, and Gayatri Spivak. The poems in Dandelions for Bhabha are, as the title hints, enchanting and unexpected opportunities to philosophise art and aestheticise thought. Narratives of miracles, refl ections on visuals, and dialogues of the dead enter the hopes, joys, and wonders of daily living. Josephs skill is to narrow the gap between the creative and the critical, and to provoke.