The Daily Glance
E. Tracy Grinnell's Some Clear Souvenir is a well-crafted book that explores the spaces between mediums and thought where things unravel. Time, memory, image--she examines where they become set in stone or fade because we cannot hold them.
E. Tracy Grinnell's Some Clear Souvenir is a well-crafted book that explores the spaces between mediums and thought where things unravel. Time, memory, image--she examines where they become set in stone or fade because we cannot hold them.
identification of elsewhere
is hope
a geography
of possibility
gathered or lost
If using Aristotelean terms, I'd say she writes of the potentiality of things and not the actuality. We're there sensing how a figure comes across a mind, a memory perhaps, and then we don't know if it has been burned on the wall or has kept moving.
how each love is
a composite
of lovers, a temporal
proximity
to fell
as if a state, a landscape
She is exact in her language, so it is easy just to get caught up in the sound of the lines and the page.
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