This issue will publish poems from my upcoming collection. They belong to the so-called "Fatty-XL" series, which contains search-engine generated flarf poems. As many readers know, flarf poems consciously use low language and bad taste to their advantage. In my own poems, I tend to combine the flarf aesthetic with my own easygoing and often narrative style. These poems can be said to belong to a new tradition of European feminism, among whose representatives I count the German novelist Charlotte Roche, whose novel Feuchtgebiete (Wetlands, upcoming in English in 2009) uses a low-culture style in its own way and to its own advantage. This type of 'worsening-feminism' can be seen as a kind of protest and matricide in comparison to a tradition of extremely aesthetic, transparent women's writing. Among my own interests is language that differs from the highly polished, crystalline women's writing that in its ultimately finished state feels sometimes almost masochistic: we polish and polish, until the text burns up all its oxygen, all its life. It's freeing to do something completely different.