States of Emergency

States of Emergency is a book-length poem about the apocalyptic present, written in a language whose meaning is liquid and full of slippage, always spilling out from its container. In Yoyo Comay' s hands, words roil, churn, and surge. By taking on different mood and modes, from the prophetic to the colloquial, he has created a form that is a constant unravelling-- a leap of faith into intuitive meaning, a letting go into ongoingness. " I am catapulted into where I am," he writes, " and the air concusses around me." Comay sees poetry as a visceral experience: a state of immanence, embodiment, emergence, emergency. This is poetry as diary and seismograph, an infinite scroll for the end of days. It is a debut like no other.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Signal Editions
Published: 03/01/2024
ISBN: 9781550656374
Pages: 80