“All the individual voices the poems evoke are mediums in some sense—sometimes in a spiritual or intellectual sense (conveyors of wisdom or ideas), other times in a physical or biological sense (conveyors of text or other bodies), and still others in a cultural sense (conveyors of myth and memory). I wanted the collection to celebrate the continuities of experience and knowledge across the apparent and real limitations of space, time and perspective. I also wanted to think about the ways that we transmit experience—and at the same time remain vulnerable and open to transmissions from others.”
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