Poetry. SACCADE PATTERNS explores vision, the erotic gaze, and social discernment. The book opens with a shuffled text that dismantles melodrama by inscribing primate capacity for abstract thought. Th
Poetry. Here is a poetry that explores the promise of public speech. What might we hear in poems that ask: if communities are built with weathered words, what is the sort of discernment that translati
Poetry. "Deborah Meadows' GOODBYE TISSUES constructs a conduit connecting the sharpened margins of the cleaved world. Whose voice can converse with her 'speech's speech' emitting from the inward-spira
In Representing Absence, Deborah Meadows draws on a practice of poetry composition as palimpsest: writing on top, or through, other writing evoking writers such as Baudelaire, Melville in the excerpts
Poetry. Literary Nonfiction. California Interest. Women's Studies. Art. LECTURE NOTES: A DURATION POEM IN TWELVE PARTS makes that subtle shift from seemingly raw appropriation to an act of art history
Poetry. The bass guitar creates patterns that make music into a visceral experience—they are what infect the body. The poems in TRANSLATION: THE BASS ACCOMPANIMENT—SELECTED POEMS are in dialog with ot
Elvira Sample was once a happy girl. Growing up an only child may not be one’s idea of a perfect life, but she and her mother make their cozy cabin in a picturesque setting a quiet refuge with happy m
