Vela.

Gavin, Knar

ISBN 10: 194603164X / ISBN 13: 9781946031648

Published by Operating System, 2019

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Vela.
• Publisher: Operating System
• Publication Date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 194603164X
• ISBN 13: 9781946031648
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

'Vela.' wonders about media ecologies/mediumicity, and wanders among vegetal life, fruits and animals, asking questions about entities not-just-human, and about proximity -- how close is close? What vela lie beneath, or above, the variegated vellum that we are? I like to think my poems are worried about archives, too, yet capaciously so: what does the body archive? What does it send, and what does it re-seethe? What should the poem being doing about the Anthropocene, beyond re-marking it, and how can the poem engage meaningfully with other-than human intelligences and temporalities? There are these things, and then the poet shows up every now and again -- I guess as a sort of rattled shy kid who nonetheless still loves the world, and never wants to stop glossing it -- or trying.

About the Author

Knar Gavin attended the Iowa Writers' Workshop and is a doctoral candidate in English at the University of Pennsylvania. Her poetry has been published or is forthcoming in AGNI, Birdfeast, Poetry, BOAAT, Caketrain, Booth, the Journal, Storm Cellar, Yemassee, Print-Oriented Bastards, Quarterly West, SoftBlow, Glittermob, Heavy Feather Review and elsewhere. She writes the occasional folk song and rides bikes with Team Laser Cats, a Philadelphia women's cycling squad. Her tumbles can be found at knargavin.tumblr.com.