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Adriána Kóbor (Hungary, 1988), active in the Benelux from 2006 till late 2018, from 2018 in Italy. Her poems aim to explore and extend the boundaries of language. The major part of her work is written in English, though her verses and stories can be found in other languages — Hungarian, Dutch, Italian, etc. —, as well. Currently she is busy with the final touches on her unpublished work preparing it for publication. She is regularly submitting and publishing in the international literary media.​

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Adriána Kóbor

AK

Www?Ww?W?

"In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God." On the beginning there were caves, drowning drawings, greedy grins, cavemen's grabbing grimes, forever-alive totems. The word as a sound, as image, as sound-image, the morpheme of meaning. Then came the world wide web, with its lost taboos and actual statements of digits. I've created this who-what-when-where-why website, a digital 'space' thinking about the fact: "Whoever-can-do-whenever-and-wherever-whatever-nothings into this were-not-s 'n what-not-s, and why not?", thus, assign to this nothingness&no-one-ness a space, since there was already a 'space' assigned to these words, only and exclusively in this digital space. Since, on the beginning was merely an 'I', doing whatever she wished for, and for that which she was destined. Or whatever the Word designed the 'I' for. At last, there was no-one, nowhere, never, nothingness. The lost taboos. The actual statements. The digits: https://adrianakobor.wixsite.com/poet.

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What.

How to intoduce 'the author' without an image, without the use of a personal pronoun or a name? Visual poet poet writer artist digital artist collage artist painter photographer sound artist etc. (without the commas, in order to avoid categorizing, but learn to have the look, which shall always search for the eternal meaning and the simple beauty, that which integrates and unites, that which is innocent and pure, unmerciful, and often: also invisible. Adriána Kóbor, a.k.a. AK. All the aforementioned categories and adjectives and none of them. A name, an image. But: how to describe 'the invisible' without a word? Let's see...

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