You Can have It All

YOU CAN HAVE IT ALL, Kathleen Heil’s debut poetry collection, traverses Berlin, London, New York, New Orleans, and Madrid. With guest appearances from the work of Andy Warhol, Trajal Harrell, John Berger, Marina Abramović, and Gilda Radner, among others, Heil examines, with wry humour, life, love, violence, art, and cows under late capitalism. Giorgio Agamben once said all poems are either elegies or hymns. Heil's work sings between these two registers: take it, baby. Kathleen Heil is an artist working with languages of the body and written word, whose interdisciplinary practice investigates relationships of meaning production in dance, poetic text, and translation. Her poetry, prose, and translations appear in The New Yorker, The Common, Fence, Diaphanes, The Paris Review, and many other journals. She is also the translator of The Loveliest Vowel Empties, Meret Oppenheim’s collected poems, and of Sophie Taeuber-Arp’s Letters to Annie and Oskar Müller-Widmann. Originally from New Orleans, since 2015 she lives and works in Berlin.