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Photography and the Posthuman in Ulrike Draesner’s Mitgift and Vorliebe

“…5 The two designations of humans as linguistic beings, on the one hand, and as makers and spectators of images, on the other, make strange contact in Ulrike Draesner's poem 'formation fontanelle' ['fontanelle formation']. 6 The poem reflects a conversation between an I, most likely a woman, and her former lover, most likely a man. Although the two interlocutors are not explicitly gendered, the majority of Draesner's poems speak from a female perspective and articulate female bodily experience and knowledge.…”