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Diode Editions, 2024
“Dense. Synaptic. All energy and brilliance. The sonic life of a word lengthened into a new structure for thinking: ‘Armorial Time’s climb paradiddles, / drumming child out childhood, nephew].’ Channeling so many frequencies of language and insight, fast through him like light in the alive-alive circuitry that is BOOT-less. Trace DePass makes me think of an exquisite Gwendolynian sound meeting some of the deep, imagistic transmissions of Joel Dias-Porter or Bob Kaufman. Emanation, kiss, plea. See: ‘is this flatline moving me, failed, forward, / feathered closer to grace each time; going / mother after mother i wake up as / a dove picking lilies from her black i…’” — aracelis girmay, author of the black maria (BOA Editions, 2016)
Diode Editions, 2024
“Dense. Synaptic. All energy and brilliance. The sonic life of a word lengthened into a new structure for thinking: ‘Armorial Time’s climb paradiddles, / drumming child out childhood, nephew].’ Channeling so many frequencies of language and insight, fast through him like light in the alive-alive circuitry that is BOOT-less. Trace DePass makes me think of an exquisite Gwendolynian sound meeting some of the deep, imagistic transmissions of Joel Dias-Porter or Bob Kaufman. Emanation, kiss, plea. See: ‘is this flatline moving me, failed, forward, / feathered closer to grace each time; going / mother after mother i wake up as / a dove picking lilies from her black i…’” — aracelis girmay, author of the black maria (BOA Editions, 2016)
