movingparts

the body / knows what / it truly / wants yet / the mind / wavers all In Edward Carsons provocative new work, the poetic moving parts of movingparts confront and breathe new life into whats true and whats not in Aesops fable "The Fox and the Crow," as well as the shifting, often fragmentary ground between whats said and whats not about identity and intimacy in Sapphos lyrics. Reflecting the moment-to-moment ways our minds think, these poems take us from a creative process of disconnection and reassembly to a sonic pacing of words arising out of their stillness on the page. A flair for syntactical compression is found throughout, balanced by a capricious yet transforming diction, what John Ashbery described as seeking to stretch the bond between language and communication. Calling witness to the narratives of history while pivoting their reach forward to the present, the rhythms, allusions, and resulting outcomes of Carsons use of language expand both narrative and discovery. movingparts is brought full circle when an unexpected historical connection between Sappho and Aesop is revealed, hinting that what is true or false in the past or present of our lives can arrive at an intimacy with and illumination of more than we imagine.