“What is this thing that shines all the time that I hide”:

On Rana by Hedva Harechavi

Abstract

In her poetry collection Rana, Hedva Harechavi creates a new form of poetical expression by inquiring into the basic elements of fiction writing: narrative, characters and the workings of the signifying mechanism. She does not put the elements to use in the poems, nor does she discard them. However, by relentlessly deconstructing and reconstructing them in an effort to devise her means of dealing with loss, Harechavi poses a deeper question about the role of ‘that which cannot be thought’ in poetry.