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  • Foxstruck and Other Collisions

    PUBLISHED 2021

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  • The Non-Sequitur of Snow

    PUBLISHED 2015

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Lunette

UNDER CONSIDERATION

Lunette is a collection of poetry that spans five years of working in ekphrastic and feminist modes while thinking about the formation and function of lunettes in arid and semi-arid desert zones.

In the writing process, investigative trace-work has included ongoing diary dissolution processes by way of paper-making, collage techniques, eco-printing, drawing and sketching as a tool to think with on site, using paper diaries (thirty years’ worth of them) to make leaf etchings, and other such textured frottage effects, all of which tend to the conditions and circumstances of openness to surprise in which poems cross-bedded in ecocritical attention/s might make incremental imprint—or not—on imaginative water, wind, soil, and the force of gravity on particulate bodies over time.

This is also a book that wrestles with the shadowy, sensate gaps and trauma-knowledges inherent in a shared, but mostly unspoken, circulation of cultural memory and memory loss in temporal and familial lines grown uncanny.

Sonqoqui

SEEKING PUBLICATION

Sonqoqui takes as its subject eco-feminist readings of sacrifice in the historic Inca complex, while also exploring the formal possibilities of a creative non-fiction verse novella. In particular, this book rejuvenates, in lyric modes, the historic materiality of weaving in both ancient and modern contexts, in order to construct the polyphonic voices of three Inca children who lived and died five hundred years ago.

Offered to the gods in a sacrificial capacocha ritual, which involved a nine-month journey on foot from the heart of the Inca empire to the world’s highest historically active volcano, the mummified bodies of these children, along with hundreds of ritual objects, were discovered on the summit of Mt. Llullaillaco in 1999.

This discovery was the result of an archaeological expedition led by Argentinean anthropologist and high-altitude archaeologist Dr. María Constanza Ceruti, and National Geographic explorer and anthropologist, Johan Reinhard. Dry air, extreme cold and the conditions achieved by the nature of the ritual burial have resulted in bodies so well preserved it looks as though the three children are merely sleeping and might wake at any time.

Frozen in time, these three children, aged fourteen, seven and five at the time of their sacrifice, are among the most eloquent mummified remains in the world. Yet to whom is this eloquence addressed and how is it interpreted?

Part polyphonic poetic biography, part bio-archaeological history, this book presents a volcanically-fibred non-fictional lyric loom that has so far resisted easy classification. An earlier iteration of this manuscript won the inaugural Peter Steele Poetry Award (2019).

Hair on Fire

IN DEVELOPMENT

Sara Ahmed contends that ‘(f)eminism begins with sensation’ and Hair on Fire takes this starting point literally. This is a new book of discontinuous feminist fictions in short story form, which takes as its premise the application of awareness through movement techniques as applied to creative-writing in process, while asking feminist questions about what is found there.

As such, none of these stories have been plotted in traditional ways and none started out with any premise at all, but as a collection, the stories grapple with bodily intelligences embedded in a range of somatically investigated settings.

Intuitive and often non-linear connections accrue between these fictions, which incrementally give rise to a darkly sparkling defiance, as well as coherence, within the mundane imaginings of an abortive, punitive, often ridiculous, imploding and exploding, patriarchal world on fire.

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