HSIUNG, Valerie
To love an artist

 To love an artist is a book of tracing and traveling through different practices of marking time and space—from the archaeological to the choreographical, architectural, and meteorological. Through an inheritance passing down several long sequences that unravel and re-combine ecological evidences, biblical/military/technocratic narratives, bureaucratic jargon, and the crypt/crip’d of family mythology emerge curses, (mis)pronunciations, tonics, prospectings, topplings, hopscotch, prosthetics, selves nesting within selves, lathes turning upon other lathes, in a newfound extramundane of the fractal and fissure(d). This book is about a rock… that’s also a tumor… that’s also a cloud formation… that’s also industrial residue… that’s also mugwort resin… that’s also a rock.

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Published by Essay Press, 2022
Poetry