String Feeling

String FeelingString Feeling approaches a poetry of applied post scarcity. In this intoxicating tragicomic epic, a kind of utopia of pure imperfection is imagined sidelong. String Feeling soaks up abundance in the inimical, the crystalline, and the samey. This is a social world whose connective tissues are ofc ablated and cuffed, its skins glitter slit and unstable, yet nonetheless so tender and safe that even sickness can be cherished for its specific textures.

String Feeling approaches a poetry of applied post-scarcity. In this intoxicating tragicomic epic, a kind of utopia of pure imperfection is imagined sidelong. String Feeling soaks up abundance in the inimical, the crystalline, and the samey. This is a social world whose connective tissues are ofc ablated and cuffed, its skins glitter-slit and unstable, yet nonetheless so tender and safe that even sickness can be cherished for its specific textures.

Abundance is partly political economy, but partly mystic practices, a Òseeing also,Ó often droll and self-deprecatory, that reveals the wriggling roots of the real. Like its contrapunto comrade String Theory, String Feeling infers a higher-dimensioned space, where what appear as dots are actually one-dimensional objects (open or looped ÒstringsÓ). This means that the pixels that make up a memory on one vibration may comprise a dream, or a desire, or an entanglement with the more-than-human, as the stringÕs vibrational intensity varies.

What kind of fool gets this good at poetry when we donÕt even know what poetry is yet? String Feeling is a work supremely horny and wise.

Ñ Jo Lindsay Walton