La Luna Neptuna: A Pacific Rim Prayer Wheel

The 360 micro-essays of La Luna Neptuna: A Pacific Rim Prayer Wheel form a loosely arranged moon-and-tide calendar. This mandala of perspectives on our largest ocean’s geologic Ring of Fire finds oblique allegories and parables bubbling up from the elemental interplay of Land and Water.



The word “Pacific” implies “peace,” but the region is also a site of protean turbulence. La Luna Neptuna reads omens in a gull’s cuneiform footprints, oracles in a foaming wave’s fractal lattice, and axioms in a water molecule’s triad of atoms. Along the rotary circuit of these meditations, quark-like sand grains, undulating currents, and a teeming marine biome inspire a liminal, coastal way of seeing and writing.

Kimo RedeR is a Professor of English at CUNY's Borough of Manhattan campus, and author of books on Manhattan's semiotic grid, the Tower of Babel ur-story, the symbolism of the human hand, and the linguistics of syllable magic. Twink Reder is a layout/design/text editor whose cartographic skills inform her approach to book-making and map-making alike. She is a graduate of UCLA's Department of Geography and an avid nature-trekker with a fondness for trails as well as texts.