Quanundrum [I Will Be Your Many Angled Thing]

Edwin Torres’ poetry is always driving for transformation. The poetics of his language bridges his neo-immigrant identity to the universal situation of humans finding their place in the cosmos. quanundrum explores these problems of hybridity in bodies, themes, and the physicality of Torres’ visual poetics that refracts through an ecology of language as a call for readers to invent new possibilities every time they turn the page. Torres’ book emerges from his “ many angled” selves— writer, father, Puerto Rican No’ merican, worker, designer, acolyte, master— for readers to revel in.

Edwin Torres is a poet, performer, sound visualist, graphic designer, and editor. He has brought his bodylingo poetics across many disciplines and has had 13 books of poetry published, including The Animal’ s Perception of Earth, and Xoeteox: the infinite word object. He grew up in New York City and currently lives in Beacon, NY.