CGP 8: Vorticells
by Carrie Hunter (20 pp. Saddle-Stitched) $7 ppd.
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Vorticells offers crystallized moments of cognition, Hunter’s responses to 15 San Francisco artists show us the mechanism of tranfixion in pulsing detail. Her word-maps incise ghost images right on the reader’s brain, giving us a kind of synesthetic carnival of moments and non-moments, thoughts and non-thoughts that transcends the ekphrastic continuum and forms a harmonious unit from start to finish.

XV. Accordion Accord (Carbon 9)
by Carrie Hunter 

paper thistles wavering

we are guarded and uncharged

valiant whilst charred

seabodies of the cradled hymn

diamond scars and the babies dream

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son as self as shadow as token
not knowing other really is other
cannot be formed, willed, created


we are not shadows of our selves
but selves of our shadows


come fully formed, fully othered

elegant dreams whisper to each other
wishing to be us, to uncurtain themselves


thistle glisten when unshadowed
we glisten when unshadowed


cheap satin drops down slips around
our bodies listen