Impastoral Griffin Brandan
Impastoral Griffin Brandan Poems that blur the boundaries of language and species, inviting us to imagine a new world.The expansive reworking of language in Impastoral flies through the possible…
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Impastoral Griffin Brandan
Poems that blur the boundaries of language and species, inviting us to imagine a new world.The expansive reworking of language in Impastoral flies through the possible voices of outsides and insides--slug, probe, horse carriage, sewer, potted plant, lab rat, vampire, bot fly, giant cow. The poems' composition becomes a decomposition of budding, breeding, and fluctuating. Language, in Brandan Griffin's poetry, is neither human nor nonhuman, and it undoes that very idea of these distinctions, so beings--slugprobe, pottedhorsesewer, telepathybarcode, mammaltexts--morph and change in between boundaries.Each of these poems is an organism, a collection of living connections, looped interiorities strung together in worlds tunneling through worlds.
Reading this collection is an experience of becoming deformed and merged into the experiences of other beings; you are sea