Alphabet Soup N.H. Pritchard She imagines the muse of

She imagines the muse of a fifteenth-century painter attending a phenomenology conference in Italy

mapping interrelations of celebration and shame

translator Catherine Hammond often leads with the verb in English

‘I know—no woman that ever lived— ever wrote such poetry before […] The pieces are short

Alphabet Soup N.H. Pritchard She imagines the muse ofEugene Ostashevsky Alphabet Soup collects the sayings of two multilingual girls as written down by their poet father. As their Turkish German Russian American family moves from New York to Berlin, the girls communicate in a witty and colorful language of their own, effortlessly mixing words of different origin. Does who we are determine the way we speak or is it the other way around? Alphabet Soup shows us the girls language as it changes, letting us