Black Box Named Like to Me Sneller langzaam Mirene Arsanios

Mirene Arsanios

Beginning with the image of the small white monkeys

It got so dark is a book about pleasure’s recession

lighting cues and an environmentally musical language helps to build a rich auditory landscape that enhances the immersive quality of the poems

It is uncertain where we are or when

Black Box Named Like to Me Sneller langzaam Mirene ArsaniosDiana Garza Islas Black Box Named Like to Me challenges the limits of syntax and image to hold the full scope of the imaginary in its grasp, touching on questions of motherhood, the future, memory, and the acquisition of language. The page is a zone for play, here, both in the translation and the original Spanish; words and ideas undergo radical transformation to best serve the purpose of the poems, shapeshifting at will. Vocal momentum drives these