The Presence of Absence: Meditations on the Unsayable in Writing

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FORTHCOMING Winter 2024

The Presence of Absence is about writers navigating the unspeakable through image, sound, and structure. Each chapter focuses on a specific text, exploring the ways that four writers look to visual and auditory materials and metaphors as passageways to understanding and expressing ineffable qualities of relationships, identity, and grief. The book explores absence and excess,[…]

The Book / Or / The Woods

Published: 05/20/2021

Here is The Book / Or / The Woods, an epic song cycle that devours itself on repeat, taking cover in its own flames. We think epic in the sense of bpNichol writing Martyrology, Jabès with his books of books, Rosmarie Waldrop’s Curves to the Apple, Keith Waldrop’s Transcendental Studies, Harryette Mullen’s Recyclopedia, Craig Santos[…]