What does the language of flight, persecution, and separation sound like, and what does it reveal? In *Heim.Statt* (Home.Instead), Esther Kinsky gathers images of a mythology of contemporary wounds.
Esther Kinsky listens to the voices that find their expression in unfamiliar languages and to the silence that follows their muteness. The short, bright calls of a swallow might be the voice of a woman who has lost her tongue.
Deniz Utlu speaks with Esther Kinsky about a poetics that rejects the contemporary conditions of violence and thus returns to a language of mutability.