Diode Editions, 2024
In this double feature of a hybrid work of poetry and creative non-fiction prose, readers experience a relentless contemplation through a woven tapestry of human connections, estrangements, and the complex, often painful dynamics that bind us. What is the exchange rate for human closeness? Within one part of the collection, Close Is… holds a direct and unflinching mirror to humanity, forcing the question: Is human connection worth the emotional, psychical, and spiritual exchange rate? Who and what should be considered our own if our own, the human species, causes inevitable beauty and pain within our attempts to create, breach, sever, and explore the range of human relationships. And does the answer lie in expanding our horizon beyond what we consider as...human. Hopscotch Between the Living and the Dead descends into the depths of a family narrative through vivid imagery and scenes that encapsulate us within linguistic hopscotch as it unzips. A childhood game that instructs players to move forward and backward within a chalk-drawn board on concrete, Hopscotch takes readers through a labyrinthian path of family secrets, the living and the dead, and a reckoning with surfacing the unseen of memory through vivid fragments across time. This double volume adventures through the liminal spaces of being human while containing an abyss of yearning to close the gap between ourselves and others. At any cost.
Diode Editions, 2024
In this double feature of a hybrid work of poetry and creative non-fiction prose, readers experience a relentless contemplation through a woven tapestry of human connections, estrangements, and the complex, often painful dynamics that bind us. What is the exchange rate for human closeness? Within one part of the collection, Close Is… holds a direct and unflinching mirror to humanity, forcing the question: Is human connection worth the emotional, psychical, and spiritual exchange rate? Who and what should be considered our own if our own, the human species, causes inevitable beauty and pain within our attempts to create, breach, sever, and explore the range of human relationships. And does the answer lie in expanding our horizon beyond what we consider as...human. Hopscotch Between the Living and the Dead descends into the depths of a family narrative through vivid imagery and scenes that encapsulate us within linguistic hopscotch as it unzips. A childhood game that instructs players to move forward and backward within a chalk-drawn board on concrete, Hopscotch takes readers through a labyrinthian path of family secrets, the living and the dead, and a reckoning with surfacing the unseen of memory through vivid fragments across time. This double volume adventures through the liminal spaces of being human while containing an abyss of yearning to close the gap between ourselves and others. At any cost.
