Embodied Unconscious

"Did the woman have too much privilege? Is there such a thing as matriarchal language? Stamina and curiosity by the student-poets-scholars over 2 years of "Carrier Waves" (Zoom sessions) has led to this remarkable recovery, and intimate response. Look to the Archive was the prompt and the student collective cohort, spear-headed by the indomitable Christina Chady burrowed in. We started the BA MFA and SWP programs of Writing & Poetics nearly 50 years ago with a founding vision that we could build an archive that would resonate across a trajectory of consciousness. Work on this book seemed a powerful antidote through slog and mystery of pandemic time, of angst and loss, panic and sequester to some articulated agency around self-discovery, mysticism, dream, torqued language, identity, gender, race, class, sexual empowerment, queerness, disobedience, continuous present, whereby a struggling renascent poet feminism emerges. Brava to the students-poets-editors-scholars who grappled with disembodied voices. Head to heart to head to ear to oral nights to oculist witness, from reel to reel, reel to cassette, cassette to CD tracking, tracing dream and vortex, and wild mind dialects of head space and ludic place. Now we're up to the future with its fierce continuing opaline determination to be heard embodied in these texts and psyches. This is a great shimmering and useful handbook for younger writers/thinker"--