Muzzle

<p class=ql-align-justify>In her debut full collection of poetry Rivka Clifton a curator of curiosities challenges us to consider language as a form of violence. Challenges us to understand what violence can be: memory both lived and re-lived. Rivka draws on her personal journey with these powerful landscapes which are part incantation part exorcism. The poems in <em>Muzzle</em> contemplate the relationship between speech and violence and how translating the experience of grief and loss into language can itself be a form of violence-through one's initial experience and living memory. How can everyday speech be violent how can small violences be a means of communication-these are the questions posed to us by <em>Muzzle</em>. As we traverse the poems in this collection we are invited to consider our own lives our own relationship with memory grief loss love and yes violence. </p><p><br></p>