Holograms in the Field

Poetry 

ISBN 978-1-957746-23-4 

p.82

Winner of the 2024 Gasher Book Award, Holograms in the Field is an assemblage of five long poems, each of which is a meditation on modes of embodiment and mediums of co-animacy. Three ekphrastic poems at the book’s center dwell on the way bodies merge with their environments in Remedios Varo’s paintings, the way sound articulates the dissonances of being-with in a John Cage string quartet, the way “moving through the world is an act of embroidery” in a Trisha Brown dance. Two meditative poems grounded in methods of phenomenology frame the book, tracing and retracing how the self is a fold in the fabric of being, where selves unfold into particles in the fog. The book is an atmosphere study, an investigation of ecological moods, where everything is waves dancing with tonal interchangeability, where the sentence is a landscape stretching between horizons. Using the breath as a compass, and the breath-like long line as a practice, these poems wait for the exhale to spill the body into expanse.