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Multilayered lyric poems that resist systems of power and foster intimacy.
An inheritor of lineages marked by colonial and gendered violence, Farid Matuk approaches the musical capacities of verse not as mere excitation or decoration, but as forms that reclaim pleasure and presence. Entering the sonic constellations of Moon Mirrored Indivisible, the reader finds relief from nesting layers of containment that systems of power impose on our bodies and imaginations. In this hall of historical mirrors, fictions of identity are refracted, reflected, and multiplied into a vast field of possibilities. Matuk's meditations on place and power offer experiments in self-understanding, moving through expansive conversations between a lyric "I" and others, including poets, the speaker's partner, ancestors, and the reader, and creating spaces for strange intimacy. Each of the book's four sections of poems builds on the other to ask how we might form a collective—a people—not founded in orthodoxies of originality but in the mutual work of mirroring one another.
Contents
I.
Redolent
Against Occupation
Poem
Doubled Channel Past
Glistering
The Game
The Butcher's Fifth Quarter
Mirror: Distance
II.
Closer
Before That
Alright, You Light-Headed Fathers
Banner & Thrum
Perfect Day
Prepossessed
Show Up
Scale Up
A Page without a People
Aug. 2, 1990-Feb. 28, 1991
Mirror: Punishment
III.
Alpha Video Transcripts
Video Tryouts for an American Grammar Book
Sentences Heard upon Emergent Devotions
Concentric
Circumference
The Great Commitment
Form & Freight
Whatso Goes
Thirst Petition
To One's Honor
Having Already Been Said
Mirror: Say
IV.
A Movie Called Mimesis
Moon Mirrored Indivisible
Magnificat Mirror Petition
Exvocation
Arts & Craft
The Moon in Cancer
Crease
Mirror: Arc
Acknowledgments
Notes on the Text
