Saccade Patterns

Author: Deborah Meadows Publisher: BlazeVOX books (2011) Saccade Patterns explores vision, the erotic gaze, and social discernment. The book opens with a shuffled text that dismantles melodrama by inscribing primate capacity for abstract thought. There's even a list of possible names for a pet cricket that follows a mathematic iteration. The poems seem to ask how an ekphrastic poem based on the story of Tristan und Isolde illumines the oldest gaze of love and eros. "Highways out to desert proving grounds" lead to technologically-enhanced vision, failures in our "dynastic speed-up." "Some crazy inter-speciation all relative going on here. Keep up the reflexes. But without rules, no axiomatic set—or: something takes over the rules. Words thinking, re-rule, feel. Need de-bunking? Gladiatorial spoof, dirty rimshots—'how squeeze structures.' 'Will/we fall out/of our shadows?' The subject self-perfumes, not too allegorized. Engines lighten touch on proximate jitters strapped to the galaxy. Y