![]() ![]() These wraiths compel us to examine what appears in our midst, how we acknowledge these appearances and what we accept and disregard. Susan Slaviero, author of Cyborgia and Selections From The Murder BookĪrlene Ang’s poems are devoted wraiths tracking queries of what does and doesn’t belong, what it means to belong to a place, what is here, what left and what, if anything, will return. ![]() Ang offers us fragments of the dreams we have forgotten, a glimpse of crows, of rising waters and crashing cars, taking the ephemeral and giving it a startling permanence and solidity. Between these pages, the occult language of commonplace objects will make you squirm and shiver. Arlene Ang's collection, Banned for Life, aims to fix our gaze upon the body-the exposed brain, the voicebox, the swallowed tongue-and does not let us "look away, as if to avoid infection." These poems speak of the always-present threat of erasure via the gun, the knife, and the worm, exposing the violence reflected in unlatched windows, hallway mirrors and glass eyes. But Bombyonder is not merely a scathing, slicingly funny assemblage. Portrait Reb Livingston acrylic and water color on cotton paper 10 x 7. ![]()
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