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Theatreland — poetry by ē· rā/ tiō founding editor Gregory Vincent St. Thomasino.

 

“Image and language take precedence” above all else, says Walter Benjamin.  In these poems we are reminded that we need not choose between the two.  Here, where every poem echoes another unto infinity, we are reminded of the “solitary arc” that is the intersection of text and image, the geometry of the world become word, “an epitome, in parenthesis / a passage, or, in correspondence.”  These poems entangle and disentangle.  Read horizontally or vertically, forward or backward, we make, “out of” the unhomely—that is, language—“a home.”  To read these poems is to create heterotopic spaces, as much in their negation and absence as their horizons.  As readers, we are “now harking and immovable.”  We are now “making quote.”  Read these poems and embrace the plurality of the word, imagine space anew and expanding.  — Jacqueline Winter Thomas  

 

If you’re looking for a different word order read Gregory Vincent St Thomasino. — Alan Halsey