Tomatoes + Why Doesn't the Far Left Read Literature? Futurepoem Since the late ’60s

Since the late ’60s

Dasha Loyko

Cavalcanti

these poems are time-stamped and often dedicated to friends they address

Tomatoes + Why Doesn't the Far Left Read Literature? Futurepoem Since the late ’60sNathalie Quintane Lauded French poet Nathalie Quintane's Tomatoes, written at the height of the infamous Tarnac affair, is a book of integrated critique, a form a literary non fiction that prefers anecdote to theory. In Tomatoes, it turns out that the banalities of municipal politics, book festivals and vegetable gardening are saturated with all the latest advances in state repression. Quintane's irony makes demands, puts something at stake, attempts