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November 16, 2024 / barton smock

words toward Kristyn Garza’s ‘Dictionary of Bodies’ (Gasher Press, 2024)

Dictionary Of Bodies
Kristyn Garza
Gasher Press, 2024

Wreath, wraith. Define an identified body. Plot knows how I got here. Here is a place that houses the danced around thing. That languages lostness into being lifted from a touchless tongue. Here is Kristyn Garza’s Dictionary Of Bodies. Nuance of trauma, ghosted latticework. Somehow is, somehow was. Time is a time machine. Garza is a poet of the invitingly unexplained. Ask and answer kneel on the same knee. Prose assigns its invisible birthmark and invents independence. Saying and speaking have a long distance relationship with brief evocations. What work. Have surface, save face, and share a firefly.

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reflection by Barton Smock

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