Heuving, Jeanne: Brilliant Corners

Chax Press Publication Date: October 31, 2022 Publisher Marketing: New Poetry from 2022 Judith E. Wilson Fellow in Poetry at Cambridge University. Here is a glorious wading tour of the infinite, the natural, and their relationship to human art-making on multiple registers: musical, linguistic, textilic/material. Tricks of perception turn landscapes and city vistas into painted surfaces, playing with scale and illusions of “mastery.” Text melts into texture and sound then morphs back again. “If ‘a turn in the path or the crossroads is the intersection between the ancestors and the living,’ then BRILLIANT CORNERS, riffing on Monk’s ornate, inventive austerity and braiding it with many other voices, is a meeting of not only with human lineage but also with elemental and material lineage, likewise both ancestral and living. An ocean of language ebbs and floods in wide swaths of print as the pages turn here like waves, though the ocean’s history with land is presumably far vaster than human