Words-Empire Magazine

       Read Issue    ||   Download Issue     ||   Read Interview    Welcome to issue III of Words-Empire Magazine Writing has always been an instrument of recollection, if not the closest thing humanity possesses to an archaeology of buried feelings and truths. With language, one is forced to unearth a set culture and carry it into the present in order to learn it, to question it, and sometimes to counterbalance it. Every moment holds the fragments of the past, and every period leaves behind its own lettering as if to say; “I was here”. In this sense, the writers’ job, is not merely to be the witness of history but to name and rename the unnameable.  In the words of Salman Rushdie; “A writer's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep”. Likewise Ralph Waldo Emerson envisioned the poet as namer, when he says; “By virtue of this science the...