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Ornithopter Press, paperback

Publication Date: May 15, 2023

Publisher Marketing:Intaglio Daughtersis an homage text for the poet Lyn Hejinian. All titles (in italics above each poem) are taken from her bookThe Unfollowing. In the preface to her book she writes I wanted each line to be as difficult to accept on the basis of the previous and subsequent lines as death is for we who are alivea comparison that I make intentionally, since my intention in writing the sequence of poems Im calling The Unfollowing was to compose a set of elegies. In considering a form forIntaglio DaughtersI wonderedwhat follows loss and rupture? What follows unfollowing? The mourning process often involves a non-sequential experience of timeand many returns, wavelike, in spirals or contractions. In keeping with this idea of rounds, sinuous or labyrinth-time, reaching backward and forward simultaneously, my book is a series of rondels, with the final line in each poem returning to, and resounding Hejinians language.