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POETRY THAT ENACTS THE ARTISTIC AND CREATIVE PURITY OF GLASS
POETRY THAT ENACTS THE ARTISTIC AND CREATIVE PURITY OF GLASS
Kenning JP García is the author of OF (What Place Meant) and Furthermore. Xe is a diarist.
Review of Mitten Scraps & Patterns by Bronwen Tate
Mitten Scraps & Patterns
by Bronwen Tate
Dusie Kollektiv, 2019
Bronwen Tate's chapbook that was released by Dusie Kollektiv is an homage to the life and work of Marthe Reed. Mitten moves between prose and verse. That is to say, the broken lines of one piece are met by the sentences of another. Easy to see breakages are juxtaposed not necessarily with mendings but with pairings, braids, synthesis.
As Tate writes, "What is too easy about what comforts us, that we should want difficulty. What is partial in every eye?" It is an uneasy synthesis. "All perceptions in the flush of arrival flawed, partial."
To say the parts came together would be too easy but the parts have come together in negation and reworking. "Not writing, I still compose in my head. / Words, not colors. Words and their colors. / Not sounds. Their sounds."
This is a chap of understanding each bit as its own bit. The use of each part. And yet an assembly if not an assembling. There's a sense of together always close-at-hand in this chap. A sense of being near or alongside. An implied with.
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