Eileen G'Sell
Eileen G'Sell is a poet and critic with regular contributions to Hyperallergic, Jacobin, and The Hopkins Review, among other publications. In 2023 she was awarded the Rabkin prize in arts journalism. She teaches at Washington University in St. Louis.
By Eileen G'Sell
| April 22, 2022
There is a quality to the gaze that is always political. It is not that children have a more poetic look on life, but that it is vital for them to look, it is vital for them to gaze. It is about getting information, because they are dependent and a lot is not said within families that have a strong hierarchy.