The Magnolia Grows at Night Walt Whitman

The Magnolia Grows at Night Walt WhitmanFransisca Angela The Magnolia Grows at Night is drawn from a diary Fransisca Angela kept while making a film of the same title. The work was inspired by the friendship and letters between her oma and a Dutch nun who did missionary work in the Dutch East Indies. A decade after her omas death, Fransisca traced the address in Maastricht that led her to a convent, where a community of Indonesian nuns care for elderly Dutch nuns. A large magnolia tree

’ the speaker keeps community with the dead: ‘I embrace you to my chest / You embrace me into your soul / I carry your soul

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and still regard it

Van mijn slimme routes nog

voor het eerst bijeengebracht

En in de verte klinkt een verre uittrap: aanmoedigingen galmen richting een doel

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Het is niets is een citaat uit het bekende gedicht ‘Daimoon megas’

filosofie en politiek versplinterd om weerstand te bieden tegen uitbuiting en onderdrukking

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